Article:		Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
Subject:		I realize that I'm on XML.com, but....
Date:		2005-04-01 07:04:20
From:		mdchaney
Response to: I realize that I'm on XML.com, but....
How exactly do you return JS Objects in the response? What should be the document type? Your code looks fine. Just use "text/plain" for the document type. When I do this locally, I simply use ".txt" files. I just finished a simple application for a client which has a 2.5M data file, the entirety of which is a humongous JS object literal. Loading it locally, including file reading, parsing, and object creation, takes about 2-3 seconds on my computer here (1.8GHz with plenty of RAM). The application is incredibly fast, particularly for dealing with a lot of data. Using XML DOM in such an application would bloat the data file by at least 25-30% (just looking at adding end tags), and bloat the code by an obnoxious amount by having to deal with DOM instead of simple object properties.

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