Re: Ajax please....

Hello, on 04/08/2006 04:13 PM Robert Cummings said the following: > I'm probably just having a bowel movement or something, but I think > going with a lib that supports either iframe or xmlhttprequest > interchangeably is probably the way to go. While iframe may have more > features and less instability surrounding it right now, you can probably > bet your ass, xmlhttprequest is going to become the standard for the > simple reason that it's purpose was to do this kind of thing, whereas > iframes are a dirty little hack :) Have you tried uploading files with XMLHttpRequest? Have you tried making a single request with XMLHttpRequest to execute a task on the server and obtain progress feedback within the same response? Have you tried developing a AJAX solution based on XMLHttpRequest for a wide audience that applied the latest Microsoft service pack that disables ActiveX for IE ? Once you try common things like this, you will see better which solution is the "dirty little hack". ;-) > I would just hate to have to rewrite everything once iframes start > sucking. And no, I don't currently know of an ajax lib that does this, > but I'll certainly be making mine do so in the near future :) Right, once you try things for yourself you will reach the same conclusions like I have that XMLHttpRequest is the solution that it s*cks. ;-) -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.metastorage.net/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/