XMLHttpRequest and Browser Support
This quiz covers the history and implementation of XMLHttpRequest in different browsers, including Mozilla, Apple Safari, and Opera. Learn about the W3C standard and how it was adopted by various browsers.
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- Question 1
- Mozilla 1.0
- Opera 7.6
- Safari 1.2
- Firefox 1.0
- Question 2
- XMLHttpRequest Living Standard
- DOM Level 2 Load and Save Specification
- DOM Level 3 Load and Save Specification
- Ajax Standard Specification
- Question 3
- 2006
- 2004
- 2012
- 2007
- Question 4
- The map is not draggable
- The page is never explicitly refreshed
- The page is explicitly refreshed
- XMLHttpRequest is not used
- Question 5
- <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/XMLHttpRequest">https://www.mozilla.org/XMLHttpRequest</a>
- <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest">https://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest</a>
- <a href="https://www.apple.com/XMLHttpRequest">https://www.apple.com/XMLHttpRequest</a>
- <a href="https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/">https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/</a>
- Question 6
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- Question 7
- HTML document
- Text document
- XML document
- JSON document
- Question 8
- responseText property
- responseXML property
- response property
- responseType attribute
- Question 9
- To set the type of data returned by the responseText property
- To specify the type of response expected from the server
- To parse the JSON data returned by the server
- To set the type of document returned by the responseXML property
- Question 10
- An XML document object
- A parsed JSON object
- A string representation of the data
- An array buffer
- Question 11
- An init object
- A callback function
- A URL
- An event listener
- Question 12
- To set up event listeners for button clicks
- To parse the response from the server
- To make an AJAX request
- To display the response in the browser
- Question 13
- If the browser does not support XMLHttpRequest
- If the document object is defined
- If the browser supports XMLHttpRequest
- If the window object is defined
- Question 14
- To display the response from the server in the browser
- To make an AJAX request
- To set up event listeners for button clicks
- To parse the response from the server
- Question 15
- xhr.onreadystatechange()
- xhr.makeRequest()
- xhr.send()
- xhr.open()
- Question 16
- xhr.readyState
- xhr.responseXML
- xhr.contentType
- xhr.status
- Question 17
- To handle the onreadystatechange event
- To display the pictures retrieved from Flickr
- To send a GET request to the flickrfeed.xml file
- To create a new XMLHttpRequest object
- Question 18
- xhr.open()
- xhr.responseText()
- xhr.send()
- xhr.onreadystatechange()
- Question 19
- To display the pictures retrieved from Flickr
- To handle the onreadystatechange event
- To create a new DOM element to hold the response text
- To store the XMLHttpRequest object
- Question 20
- xhr.readyState == 5
- xhr.readyState == 2
- xhr.readyState == 1
- xhr.readyState == 4
- Question 21
- To display the pictures retrieved from Flickr
- To store the XMLHttpRequest object
- To get a reference to the existing DOM element with the id 'pictureBar'
- To create a new DOM element to hold the response text
- Question 22
- XML file
- JavaScript file
- HTML file
- Image file
- Question 23
- HTTP extensions
- JSONP
- XMLHttpRequest
- CORS
- Question 24
- To improve the security of the request
- To bypass same-origin policy restrictions
- To increase the request's payload size
- To reduce the latency of the request
- Question 25
- Fetch API returns a Promise, while jQuery.ajax() returns a callback
- Fetch API rejects on HTTP error status, while jQuery.ajax() does not
- Fetch API sends cookies by default, while jQuery.ajax() does not
- Fetch API won't reject on HTTP error status, while jQuery.ajax() will
- Question 26
- A server that is set up to accept CORS requests
- A proxy that is set up to relay CORS requests
- A client that is set up to send CORS requests
- A web application that is set up to handle CORS responses
- Question 27
- Request and response headers
- HTTP headers
- Request and response bodies
- HTTP-related concepts such as CORS and HTTP extensions
- Question 28
- Set-Cookie headers from the same site
- Cross-site cookies
- HTTP error status codes
- Set-Cookie headers from other sites