Comments on: IE7 adds native XMLHTTPRequest object

By: Gustave

Gustave — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:25:08 +0000

I don’t really understand what i have to change in the livesearch code to get it working in IE7. Can you give me an example?

By: cbmeeks

cbmeeks — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:01:55 +0000

It seems like IE7 has “fixed” problems that should make them more compliant to standards. But these fixes are breaking old “hacks” and work-arounds that are everywhere.

It’s good that IE7 is more standard-based but something has to give.

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By: Nick Smith

Nick Smith — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:32:03 +0000

Many thanks for this page – it helped me make a simple fix to the Bitflux livesearch code so that it now works on IE7 :)

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:18:48 +0000

Maybe I understand this better now: The ajax code checks for IE, if so it uses Microsoft.XMLHttp object EVEN though IE7 now comes with XmlHttpRequest. Can we force IE7 to respond to the Microsoft.XMLHttp object?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:33:39 +0000

I have the same problem in IE7. All the other browsers support multiple requests.
Any solution?

By: steveny

steveny — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:48:51 +0000

Pre IE7 you would instantiate the object differently than you would in Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc…

For IE (pre 7) you would either use:
new ActiveXObject(’Msxml2.XMLHTTP’) or new ActiveXObject(’Microsoft.XMLHTTP’)

In IE 7 and other browsers you would use:
new XMLHttpRequest()

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:29:20 +0000

Your saying IE7 doesn’t reuse XmlHttpRequest object like the rest of the web browsers?