Oh wtf, IE caches AJAX calls?

[mainegreen]

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What a piece of crap, good for nothing, low down, dirty cheap whore of a browser.

[charlie]

1. Yes

Agreed, the browser is well past its sell-by date. Append a unique string to each call to subvert the caching:

xmlReq.open('GET','new_file.txt?'+escape(new Date()));

[mainegreen]

2. That's looking like that's what I'm gonna do!

Thanks. It's just sad that one has to do that!

[charlie]

3. Yeah, it's sad

IE was the Cadillac of browsers when Microsoft was busy stomping Netscape flat. Then they let it go to weed for half a decade. Quality and innovation are only side effects of MS's rapacious desire for market lockup.

[qnr]

4. Cadillac? I always considered it more like the NYC Puerto Rican bicycle,

with 20 headlights, streamers in 87 different colors, a boom box with quadraphonic speakers, 12 sets of mirrors, no brakes and otherwise totally unfit for use.

[charlie]

5. IE4?

MS took a monumental leap ahead of the likes of NN4 and Opera 3 with that one. It was the first of the 2nd generation browsers. NN4 was so bad, even Netscape partisans couldn't wait for it to fall out of use so they wouldn't have to develop for it anymore. IE is a junker today, but back then the other major browsers were oil-burning mopeds.