Looking for a way to get non JSON data from foreign domain using Ajax, we found the http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/ lib and the http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3342 Jquery patch.
Did anybody try them ?
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If you want to do cross-domain communication in javascript, you can probably do better than the old links above. There are newer, easier-to-use approaches including EasyXDM which are worth trying.
Justin Grant
2010-05-04 17:24:02
Thanks for your recent 'evangelism'! For some reason the project has been hard to 'sell'..
Sean Kinsey
2010-05-06 11:30:01
You're welcome! XDM is really doing the right approach to XDM, where you hide browser differences but always choose the "best" mechanism for a particular browser. This is what JQuery does for DOM maniupuation and it's great to see this happening for XDM too. BTW, it might be nice to see a JQuery plugin variant of EasyXDM-- you'll probably find a lot of enthusiasm for the EasyXDM approach within the JQuery community.
Justin Grant
2010-05-06 20:18:47
I'm not really a big fan of jQuery, and I fail to see how making it a plugin would make it easier to use :) Unfortunately, people in the 'jQuery community' seems to believe that if it *doesn't* have a jQuery plugin then its crap (when in most cases its exactly the opposite).But hey, its a better suggestion than the one someone gave me about 'using jQuery for attaching events instead of doing it myself' :)
Sean Kinsey
2010-06-07 22:09:52