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IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-tricks-for-an-old-dog dept.

Ruliz Galaxor writes "IEBlog posts that Internet Explorer 7 will support a native XMLHTTPRequest object as many other browsers currently do. This will mean no more ActiveX MSXML objects to implement AJAX functionality. It looks like Microsoft is seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier. Of course you'll still need to use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object if you want to support IE6 and older."

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  1. Re:Backwards Compatability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, so they shouldn't add it at all, because it's apparently pointless.

    Good call! After all, why in the hell should Microsoft make web developer's lives easier in the future? It's complicated now!

  2. Looks like Microsoft has a winning strategy . . . by mmell · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They've lost some ground to Firefox et. al.; if they can keep corporate America convinced that IE is "just as good" for what businesses want their browser to do, they'll continue to hold the hammer-lock on browsers in the workplace (remember, M$ doesn't need to convince all of us, just the PHB's among us).

    Begun the browser war has (again).

  3. And...? by wombatmobile · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It looks like Microsoft is seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier.

    MS deserves credit for this sensible implementation of XMLHTTPRequest, and indeed for innovating XMLHTTPRequest in the first place.

    Now if MS is "seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier" [when] will they implement the rest of the core W3C web standards?

    FF, Opera and Safari and their respective communities are already well advanced with implementations of SVG, DOM, CSS, PNG, JPEG2000 and XForms. These standards are bread and butter for "seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier".

    When will MS join the inevitable?

  4. Re:Backwards Compatability by lseltzer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >>in practical terms its perfectly meaningless

    Not true. The point of it is that a user or company can disable ActiveX completely and still use AJAX.