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Javascript using data from another location

Started by DrjonesDW3d Jan 7, 2005 at 4:04 PM 0 replies 300+ views

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Jan 7, 2005 at 4:04 PM

Does anyone here know &#106avascript really well? I am trying to figure out if it is a valid option for a project that I am working on. Basically I need to know if it is possible for &#106avascript to request data from an outside source and embed it in a website. Ideally it would be great to just be able to open up a tcp connection and send a request/hear a response then parse it and store it in the page in place of variables. However, we could also get by with doing something like making a request for a separate file (xml probably) and then parse the file an insert the data into the page. Does anyone know if this is possible? Also, how good is &#106avascript with working with binary operations (bit shifts and masking), arrays and float/doubles?

markr

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markr

Jan 7, 2005 at 7:02 PM

What you want to take external data in &#106avascript is XMLHttpRequest. However this is not part of any standard and is only supported by some browsers.

Moreover, it doesn't behave identically in different browsers, just in a similar fashion.

Originally it was an ActiveX object shipped with IE5 - but because it was so useful, Mozilla adopted it, followed by Opera (And I believe Safari / Konqueror may have it in latter versions too).

How "good" is &#106avascript with working with binary operations? Really about as good as anything else. &#106avascript doesn't have separate int, float and double types, but rather has a Number type which behaves like them all (probably really a double). Arrays are objects in &#106avascript which happen to have integer indexes for their elements. You can create (an empty) one by using new Array(7) (7 is the length). All objects behave like associative arrays, so you can initialise a blank one with new Object(), or use initialisers like <pre> var myobj = { a:42, b:99, c:"Hello" }; </pre> Which would create an object with those properties (so myobj.a == 42 etc). Mark

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