On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L (ATTCINW) <bs3...@att.com> wrote: > Well at least it works in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. > > With that broad support, I imagine that removing this defacto feature in > XHR L2 would cause a lot of heartburn for developers who probably rely > upon it today.
This is not correct. I can't speak for the other browsers, but Firefox does not support loading HTML documents using XMLHttpRequest. We never hook up any other type of parser than an XML parser. And if the Content-Type of the response is "text/html" we don't hook up any parser at all. / Jonas