On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:20:45 +0800, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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()The XML DOM handling is also different from Mozilla and IE. Thus, the need for an IE testbed (to swing back to my original topic) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
