On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:30:01 +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:36:04PM +0800, Miguel A Paraz wrote:
> > yup XMLHttpRequest is the Mozilla way for "Ajax"... the MSIE way
> > involves ActiveX controls.
>
> "Ajax"? Surely you mean XPCOM...?
IIRC, AJAX is a clone/implementation of what GMail uses to provide a
responsive web-based GUI. It's a mixture of JavaScript and XML, using
XmlHttpRequest. In MSIE, XmlHttpRequest is exposed as an ActiveX
object which you have to instantiate in your JavaScript (again, IIRC,
still have to check with Google); in Mozilla/Gecko-based browsers and
on Safari, it's exposed by the browser's script core-- i.e. in IE you
have to use var o = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XHTTP"), while in
Mozilla/Gecko and Safari it's just var o = new XMLHttpRequest()
Links to resources about AJAX and XMLHttpRequest/XMLHTTP
[1] http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
[2] http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html
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