IE7 Supports XMLHttpRequest Natively, My Ass
IE7 Beta 3, installed fresh. Before you ask: yeah, I made sure I had the checkbox checked for "Enable native XMLHTTP Support." So I go to check some of my code and get the following:
A Runtime Error has occurred.Which means a detect script that used to weed out IE6's non-XMLHttpRequest support like this just fucking breaks in IE7:
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 286
Error: 'XMLHttpRequest.prototype' is null or not an object.
if (window.XMLHttpRequest &&So, basically, this makes me think that they didn't port shit to a native JavaScript object. This just looks like they made an ActiveX control that runs even if you disable ActiveX.
XMLHttpRequest.prototype.isPrototypeOf(someobject)) {
...
} else {
...
}
Labels: ie sucks, internet explorer