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Thanks for the heads up. Both of the clients I mentioned needed to support IE8, and I couldn't find any reliable info on AJAX support of PUT and DELETE. This seemed like the most reliable way to get it done. I'll do a follow-up post on testing the major browsers for PUT and DELETE.

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That would be very useful. I struggled to find references to back up my statement, as the jQuery docs for .ajax() only has a vague "other methods may not be supported in all browsers" - with no further details.

A simple table showing browser support for different methods in .ajax() calls would help a lot!

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