[whatwg] RE: Degrading of web applications

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 10:08:41 PDT 2004


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:29:00 -0400, Didier PH Martin
<martind at netfolder.com> wrote:
> If your app needs absolutely to communicate with a server through an HTTP
> channel then on most recent browsers and in both Mozilla and IE you can use
> xmlHttpRequest. However on older ones you'll need to use a different
> technology based on frames as knownow is doing (ref: http://knownow.com )

No, HTML forms work pretty good too...  (and there's lots of examples
of xmlhttprequest degrading to basic html forms in its absence.)

Jim.



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