What on earth would you want to do with this? When did you last mash raw binary? Never mind doing it on a web site, with JavaScript!?
That said when I first saw XMLHttpRequest I thought, useless. [Anyone remember XML? ] Someone will find something awesome to do with it.
The one good thing is that there seems to be a W3C standard that MS are working to. As I write that a sinking feeling descends, not only will we have to fork the request, we're going to have to fork the return aren't we? But I'm not going to use it anyway!
I'm making a personal bet that nobody knows what I'm gibbering about.
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Hi Neil,
I thought the XmlHttpRequest was the enabling foundation of AJAX techniques. As you know, these allow code to load and change part of the text on the page without the need to reload the whole page.
If XmlHttpRequest can handle arrays of binaries, then I guess that offers the prospect of manipulating arrays of images on a web pages without having to refresh the whole page, thus speeding up the apparent (interactive) response speed of a web-page. Arrays of sprites for games is one obvious application
Phil
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Rats, lost!
Hi Phil
That's a very good idea. There's already a CSS version of something similar. But if that's something that if I'm thinking about using I begin to think that I'm doing something wrong.
That said I've never been much of a one for grabbing content from other sites. Sometimes you have to be liberal. As I said someone will do something wonderful with it. But because you can, should you?
By the way my, latest, version of the solitaire thingee is coming along, would you like a peak? I'd share it but I have a particular idea of where I want it to head [I've been playing Go and messing with the ideas of shape and monte carlomethods] and it's a Java-re-learning thing for me. Thanks to you MVC, failing-tests and the dumb-view feature heavily
aw ra best
neil
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Hi Neil,
Go is just as complex and interesting as chess isn't it?
Atari has two meanings for you now!
Phil
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Hi Phil
Go is probably more difficult, certainly in AI terms.
The company is named after the Go-term!
arb
neil