Re: do not say AJAX
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Re: do not say AJAX

From: ivan <ivan@tiscali.it>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 15:42:56 CET

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@web.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1590129.8jjgyUgvFZ@PointedEars.de...
> 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.
>

No, because It wasn't what I meant :)

>> 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;
>

Uhm yes, you are right.
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:33 2005