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You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. Sign me up! RSS - Posts. RSS - Comments. Like this: Like Loading Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure if this is the right forum to be asking this question The process works fine in every browser I tested except in Internet Explorer 8 I have not tested the other versions of explorer.

I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, except that is has something to do with the xmlhttp. The only thing the PHP file is set to do right now is simply echo back a simple message. Here is the javascript in question this is from a separate linked file, not embedded in the actual file. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

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Linked Related This is not about browser compatibility, but about user preference. You'll always have to check whether your page still runs smooth or falls back gracefully when users have disabled certain browser's features that you need.

Update: by default, scripting and external requests i. This is different from non-IE browsers, where external requests from XHR -loaded documents are allowed or don't exist, like in Safari and Chrome.

This is a guess, but I would assume they allow it to be disabled for the same reason they allow JavaScript to be disabled. Some people believe the risks privacy, security, whatever outweigh the benefit and thus want it disabled. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more.

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