Running is therapy

I just fired up Vmware and installed IE7 Beta 2. While I really can’t comment on how it will work as an everyday browser, I did do some minor testing of the web app I have been writing. Interestingly enough, I went into the javascript:


if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        requestObject = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
    requestObject = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
}
    return requestObject;
}


And made it look like:


//  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        requestObject = new XMLHttpRequest();
//  } else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
//     requestObject = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
//  }
    return requestObject;
}


…And IT WORKED!

This is pretty fantastic. I still won’t use it. It doesn’t run on linux and it’s not pluggable like FF, but still. Very cool that in 10 years just about every web app will become 3 lines lighter in code :)