[ILUG-Webdev] XMLHTTP browser compatibility

[Kae Verens]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 23:49, adam beecher wrote:
> Nice one Lee, thanks; didn't notice that in the AJAX article before.
>
> It's quite interesting, according to that article and the browser history
> linked below, it's been around since 1997, yet it wasn't implemented in
> Opera and Mozilla-based browsers until just the year before last. I'm not
> sure how to take that.
>
> How about AOL's browser, any idea about that? If I could get away with AOL
> with this particular set of users, I wouldn't care. Is AOL still based on
> IE?

AOL is either netscape 6 or ie 6. I think they came out with both. either way, 
AJAX will work on them.

I did a bit of work recently to get AJAX working in a non-ActiveX environment. 
It emulates the XMLHTTPRequest object, but uses iframes instead. See here:
http://verens.com/archives/2005/08/14/sajax-without-activex/

In short - whatever browser you end up with, AJAX will work in, and if it 
doesn't work yet, someone will get around to fixing that sooner or later - 
there are a load of ways to get the interaction going, so it's not all that 
hard to come up with workarounds.

If you need a hand, mail me, or talk to me in IRC. I've been working with AJAX 
for a while now and might know some solutions to some problems that you 
haven't thought of yet.

Kae
ps: stag night Saturday. I'm still drunk...