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by skeoh 4099 days ago
Not _entirely_ true. AJAX will work, it just cannot access the 'file:' protocol by default. Requesting HTTP content will work fine.
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juliangregorian 4088 days ago
Haha, okay sure you are technically correct (although that's what I was getting at), but I'm going to nitpick you back and remind you that "requesting HTTP content" will not in general work because of same origin policy.
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