Derek Denny-Brown is a software developer, formerly with the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer He is credited with the development of both the MSXML XML processing engine, as well as the XMLHTTP ActiveX Control, providing functionality which has since been followed up by the Mozilla Foundation, AppleMac-Safari, and Opera, and has become the basis of a recent draft proposal by the W3C to standardize against. Microsoft XML Core Services ( MSXML) is a set of services that allow applications written in JScript, VBScript, and Microsoft development tools to build Don't change "Extensible" XMLHttpRequest ( XHR) is an API that can be used by JavaScript and other Web browser Scripting languages to transfer XML ActiveX is a Component object model (COM developed by Microsoft for Windows. The Mozilla Foundation is a Non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the Open source Mozilla project Opera is a Web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company
Denny-Brown worked for Steven Newcomb's TechnoTeacher company prior to joining Microsoft. TechnoTeacher's HyMinder engine was a robust implementation of ISO 10744 - Hytime. He briefly assisted with the US Navy MID project (a so-called notional browser language developed as a project managed out of the David Taylor Model Basin - Carderock) while in the employ of TechnoTeacher. The MID (Metafile for Interactive Documents) precedes both XUL and XAML as a markup-based GUI.
External links
- Official site
- Dare Obasanjo on the XMLHTTP object pointing to Derek's prior ownership of the XMLHTTP control
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