Why is it called XMLHttpRequest?

Question

I always wonder why this object is called like that?

The body of your request does not need to be in XML format. Also, data received from server can be fetched as JS

Answer 1

XMLHttpRequest was invented by Microsoft's Outlook Web Access team. This highly innovative team previously gave us remote scripting, which was the the beginning of "AJAX" style development. Remote scripting was like JSONP, but overly complicated (it used a Java applet, of all things). I don't remember whether it was possible to dynamically inject