On: You might not need jQuery

[nostrademons]

IE has been basically standards-compliant for XHR since IE9, and possibly before:

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#interface-xmlhttpreques...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms535874(v=vs.85)...

[kishor_gurtu → nostrademons]

Funny, because IE invented XHR.

[voltagex_ → nostrademons]

For IE9, don't you need IE-specific code for cross domain requests?

[nostrademons → voltagex_]

Yeah, you need XDomainRequest for CORS requests in IE8 and 9. IE10 is fully standards-compliant.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2010/05/13/xdoma...

[btd → nostrademons]

It is very castrated, better to use hidden iframe + window.postMessage for cors in ie8 and ie9.

[duncans → btd]

I don't think "castrated" is the word you meant :-) Perhaps "constrained" or "restricted"

[Dylan16807 → duncans]

...why not?

"to render impotent or deprive of vitality"