Article:		Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
Subject:		DOM 3 & simplification
Date:		2005-02-28 09:45:56
From:		Lars Huttar
Response to: DOM 3 & simplification
Thanks for this helpful tip. Especially good to know that XMLHttpRequest is part of a public standard. But you still have to do branching code when you *use* the XMLHttpRequest object, right? E.g. looking at the sample code in the article, req.send() apparently takes no argument in IE but takes a "null" argument in other browsers? I guess you could handle this by writing more js helper functions.

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• DOM 3 & simplification
  2005-03-04 02:34:59 JimDabell [Reply]
  
  Actually, I take back what I said about DOM3LS. The "load" part of DOM3LS was present in drafts, but didn't make it to the final recommendation. Mozilla's documentation still lists it as part of DOM3LS though, and Gecko/KHTML/Opera all implement it according to the draft description.

  
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284737

  
  
  While the MSDN documentation remains ambiguous with respect to what happens when you pass null for the request body, I haven't found any problem with doing so in practice.

  
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/xmmthsendixmlhttprequest.asp