neil.young wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm facing a problem with GDownloadUrl in IE6. Because IE6 doesn't
> have a native XMLHttpRequest object, it relies on MSXML ActiveX.
They can also turn off there images or their javascript and you can 
disable the native
support in IE7.. how about a pop up test to tell the user to get
a better browser whenever document.all is defined.  IE6 is the worst 
case scenario..
.its javascript engine is very slow (10 x slower than others on the same 
machine) and
like all the ie xml parsers it doesnt trust the xmls charset.. but thinks
 the web server ought to do the mimetype for it which is technically 
following specs
but not at all practical.

>  This
> causes problems in IE6 browsers, having ActiveX disabled at all.
>
>   
Tell users they must have it enabled if they insist on using IE6
use a try catch around a activeX instantiation ought to allow detection.

I have given up coding for IE6  (not really... but wish I could)
 on the other hand a user can also mangle other browsers.

Even though there is a method to download the xml with activex 
disabled.( iframe ajax).. parsing it
becomes another issue.. ...and there are some pure javascript xml 
parsers out there.

Question becomes how far out of your way do you really want to go.


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