Re: AJAX

In article <54a6c33af1brian.jordan9@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan
<brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
> In article <54a6c02a46bbailey@argonet.co.uk>, Brian
> <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > I receive a monthly newsletter. The latest cannot be read. NS says
> > 'This browser is not AJAX enabled'. What's that all about, please? Is
> > there a way round it so that the newsletter can be read?
> AJAX is an ACRONYM for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The concensus,
> from a few articles I have just read, seems to be that JavaScript has to
> be enabled in order to avoid this message. Maybe enabling JavaScript in
> NetSurf, if you haven't already done so, will be sufficient? I say this
> because some sites seem to test for the presence of JS even if it isn't
> actually needed in order to display (at least some of) the content.

JS is enabled.

> > Should I complain to the sender, perhaps? They are a large company.
> Probably not worth the bother I'm afraid. Unless you want the usual
> corporate "We have optimised..." reply.

Yeah, well. I'm sure that are right. But I thought that I would ask anyway.

I would add that I am finding NS to be increasingly useful for most of my
correspondence of this type and as I prefer to use RISC OS (VRPC, Win 7)
this is encouraging.