Comments on: XMLHttpRequest just blew my mind

By: foom

foom — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:08:15 +0000

Safari (as of 1.2) appears to support the XMLHttpRequest like mozilla.

By: andyed

andyed — Fri, 23 May 2003 17:47:08 +0000

I used this tech too create an opml renderer almost a year ago :) Link in the url field.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 22 May 2003 13:39:58 +0000

This seems to say that Safari doesn\'t support it, at least v60 didn\'t.

This is good because you can make browser based apps that behave more like real apps. You can click on a button, and it will send a request off to the server and wait for and then process a response, without changing pages. It adds another way to interact with a server, above and beyond just loading pages.

For instance if I have a webmail program, I can make the \'delete\' button just send a (XML-RPC, SOAP, RESTful) request to the server to delete the message, and then get back an \'OK, deleted\' message. The browser can then remove that item from the list of messages (using DOM). This will be faster and nicer than reloading the entire page.

By: Nicolas Minutillo

Nicolas Minutillo — Thu, 22 May 2003 12:20:52 +0000

I knew about that for the Microsoft browsers. I had no idea that Mozilla supported such a thing. Is this a standard or is it just Mozilla doing it because IE does it. Does any other browser do it (like, say, one based on KHTML)?

Since this was always available server side–what uses do you see browser side that are cool.