via ajaxian:

Alex Bosworth has written a lot on practicalities of Ajax including quirks. His latest piece details the Rocky Shoals of Ajax Development in which he discusses:

Browser Quirks and Limitations

• MLHttpRequest can’t access remote server
• Multiple Ajax Requests are not fired in order
• Asynchronous XMLHttpRequests responses will arrive in no particular order
• XMLHttpRequest does not requires the use of XML
• Ajax uses UTF-8
• Ajax requests are url encoded
• XMLHttpRequest cannot transmit files
• Firefox: Synchronous XMLHTTPRequests lock up Firefox
• IE: XMLHTTPRequest Objects are not reused in IE
• IE doesn’t use cached images when Javascript inserts HTML with images
• IE: Closures with circular references in IE cause memory leaks
• IE: Avoiding aggressive caching in IE
• IE corrupts gzipped javascript files
• IE doesn’t cache gzipped Javascript files

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