AJAX - The Complete Reference

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 101 PART I Propriety and Emerging XHR Features Given the intense interest in Ajax, the XMLHttpR ...

102 Part I: Core Ideas Managing MIME Types It is very important for Ajax applications that any called server-side code correctly ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 103 PART I You might wonder about the value of such a method given that typically you will be r ...

104 Part I: Core Ideas Looking at a communication trace of a multipart response, you can see chunks of individual data with size ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 105 PART I With Firefox, it is possible to set the multipart property of an XHR instance to tru ...

106 Part I: Core Ideas var percentComplete = (e.position / e.totalSize)*100; document.getElementById("responseOutput").style.dis ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 107 PART I The results of this example are in Figure 3-9, which looks pretty much the same as t ...

108 Part I: Core Ideas XHR Arcana and Future Changes If you dig around enough in browser documentation or write code to reflect ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 109 PART I Managing Requests Handling many simultaneous requests can be a bit tricky if you us ...

110 Part I: Core Ideas Ajax and Memory Leaks Ajax doesn’t cause memory leaks. We need to get that out in the open right away. Mi ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 111 PART I x = "Late to the party!"; } outer(); It might be surprising to you, since the timeou ...

112 Part I: Core Ideas Closures and Memory Leaks Internet Explorer has a problem freeing memory and closures when there are circ ...

Chapter 3: XMLHttpRequest Object 113 PART I </form> <br /> <hr /> <span id="countSpan">0</span> Cr ...

114 Part I: Core Ideas Summary The XMLHttpRequest object is the heart of most Ajax applications. This useful object provides a g ...

4 Data Formats L ike any software application, the raw material consumed or created by an Ajax application is data. Given the “X ...

116 Part I: Core Ideas User overrides thus become an unfortunate necessity for readers hoping to view the content correctly. Aja ...

Chapter 4: Data Formats 117 PART I For applications solely in English, this encoding will likely be adequate; however, with Ajax ...

118 Part I: Core Ideas Of course, it is necessary to ensure the translation is into a character set that makes sense. It would b ...

Chapter 4: Data Formats 119 PART I Encoding/Decoding Requests When selecting an input format in an Ajax application, the big que ...

120 Part I: Core Ideas text-encoded binary formats, comma-separated values, or little known text formats of your own design. The ...