Re: XMLHttpRequest overrideMimeType question..

Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
> Lucky wrote:
> 
>> they were using for a tag soup instance, and never touching any 
>> responseXML, etc. but, it is a general thought among massed that they 
>> must apply that setting for EVERYTHING?? which baffled me, perhaps 
>> some bug out there??
> 
> 
> You will need to ask one of the authors of the code where you see it but 
> generally keep in mind that lots of client-side HTML/CSS/Script is 
> thrown together by people copying/pasting stuff found online without 
> necessarily understanding details. The online availability of such stuff 
> is nice to spread it but then spreads good or bad code alike in many cases.
> 
yes my thoughts exactly, is why i'm trying to really examine why it 
would be used in such cases?

perhaps, it just is a "no harm, no foul" situation where response 
content that does not exactly translate to text/xml will fail gracefully 
if tag soup.

is it ever a case that the overrideMimeType would be used for other 
contentTypes? ie: text/gif??? etc?

or, the intended use is purely for whether or not the responseXML 
property attempts to parse the value??