Comments on Emil's Wicked Cool Blog: Javascript Hacks: Using XHR to load binary data

That's what I was searching for! Thanks!!!!!!!...

2011-12-28T07:00:25.980-08:00

That's what I was searching for! Thanks!!!!!!!

Thanks! Could you rewrite this code for Google Chr...

2011-08-21T09:08:24.956-07:00

Thanks! Could you rewrite this code for Google Chrome?

Tim, can you share an example of that technique wo...

2011-02-25T01:55:33.534-08:00

Tim, can you share an example of that technique working? I can't get it to work, instead I get a "VBArray expected" TypeError.

You can use the JScript "VBArray" object...

2010-12-01T17:29:46.564-08:00

You can use the JScript "VBArray" object to get at these bytes in IE (without using VBScript):

var data = new VBArray(xhr.responseBody).toArray();

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y39d47w8(v=VS.85).aspx

Thank you for this wonderful javascript. Unfortun...

2009-12-15T19:51:15.187-08:00

Thank you for this wonderful javascript. Unfortunately, it seems firefox has a max limit on the size of the ResponseText. I was trying to load a large jpeg image (2.47MB) using this technique (by base64 encoding it and then use the img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,XXXX" trick, but the responseText tops at 8192 bytes.