Re: [Jmol-developers] new jQuery plug-in

[Gusts K. <gus...@gm...>]

I found the problem with IE and XHR. Funny thing about Microsoft. They 
invent things, then they break them, and then they invent new ones, 
without fixing the old ones :) Same pattern goes for the XHR, which was 
invented by MS. Starting from IE 8 they have a new XHR object called 
XDomainRequest, because XMLHttpRequest had been restricted to 
same-domain policy. jQuery on the other hand has a great extensibility 
feature. So I found this plugin on GitHub, that silently replaces 
XMLHttpRequest with XDomainRequest on IE: 
https://github.com/dkastner/jquery.iecors

Now my example page works with AJAX requests on IE8 too.

As for XHR2 - it does not matter weather it's XHR level 1 or XHR level 2 
(XHR2, which is still a working draft as I saw on W3C), because XHR2 
just introduces file upload and other fancy web2.0 stuff. For simple 
AJAX requests XHR1 is enough and it works on MSIE3.0-10.0.

-- 
Gusts Kaksis