On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/7/26 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) < > [email protected]>: > > > > It is not specific to OS. Except IE, in all other browsers you can use > > XMLHttpRequest [1] to load contents asynchronously. > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest > > I think the OP meant to ask some thing else. In any case, my teams > used aynchronous XMLHTTPRequest calls in IE first in 1999. It has been > a while and so I may be naming it wrong, but this feature first > appeared in IE as far as I can remember. It came to other browsers > atleast a year or two later. > Oh you are right. The concept was originally from Microsoft, but the Javascript wrapper object named XMLHttpRequest was created by Mozilla which has become the standard. Just this wrapper object was not supported in older versions of IE, where you have to use the ActiveXObject. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
