Re: do not say AJAX

cicap wrote:

>> You probably meant "What is new with xmlhttprequest is the possibility to
>> perform an asynchronous request!". (Potentially) synchronous requests
>> have always been possible through AOM/DOM objects and through normal HTML
>> forms.
>
> No.

Yes.

> synchronous request without refresh. request.open("GET", url,
> false); //this a synchronous request with xmlhttprequest.

So? new Image().src = url; is (potentially) a synchronous request,
(delays with extensive preloading show this) as is (potentially)
hiddenFrame.location = url;

PointedEars
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:32 2005