XHTML, Etc.

Ben expounds on a theme I’ve thought about many times — the world loves HTML because it’s easy, but some vendors try to make it hard.:

“The idea is to…raise the barriers [so] the monkeys will wander off and find something else to play with. View source used to be a lot more fun for a lot more monkeys than it is today.”

How do you create an XMLHTTP object again?

In Internet Explorer, you create the object using new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP") or new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") depending on the version of MSXML installed. In Mozilla[, Opera] and Safari (and likely in future UA’s that support it) you use new XMLHttpRequest().

Thanks, Microsoft, for continuing in your mission to complicate the web.