I''ve always preferred returning JSON (or an array of JSON objects) --
it''s the simplest and most flexible for me. But I also have to develop
in ASP.NET, so what do I know :)
-----Original Message-----
From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org
[mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bleything
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:28 PM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: Campfire: Dissection
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006, Jon Gretar Borgthorsson wrote:> Doesn''t matter. The X is there because the request call in
Javascript
> is called XMLHTTPRequest. However that is just by name. It''s just
a
> simple http request and nothing in it is related to XML in any way
> except by name. I have never gotten a real answer on why they decided
> to call it that.
I just had a Moment of Enlightenment(tm)! I knew that it was just
XMLHTTPRequest, but I always assumed that it was so-called because it
returned XML.
My ah-ha just now was that HTML can be XML so I was just thinking about
it sideways.
Thanks for the clarification :)
Ben
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