Comments on: Google Closure’s idiocies: Ajax can’t be synchronous :(

By: Maxence

Maxence — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:37:14 +0000

You can create a XmlHttpRequest with goog.net.XmlHttp and pass true in the third argument of the open method.

By: gsziszi

gsziszi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:32:31 +0000

I accept

By: Davide Zanotti

Davide Zanotti — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:47:14 +0000

XmlHttpRequest is not a method, is an object and it has methods like open(). By saying “ajax” I merely mean an xhr call to retrieve data on demand, this data can be plain text, json, xml or something else and can be retrieved synchronously or asynchronously, but from a generic point of view is always ajax (the term is very generic)… I hope I was clear :^)

By: gsziszi

gsziszi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:22:44 +0000

That is correct, but XmlHttpRequest is a method, AJAX is a technology based on that method.
Otherwise, the JSON version of AJAX is AJAJ, however we use also XmlHttpRequest not JsonHttpRequest. So, we should be cautious when we use these words and abbreviations.

By: Davide Zanotti

Davide Zanotti — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:47:21 +0000

LOL :^) XmlHttpRequest can be opened both in synchronous (asynchronous flag set to “false”) than asynchronous mode (asynchronous flag set to “true”)

By: gsziszi

gsziszi — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:12:58 +0000

ajax never can be synchronous:
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
:)