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Your code is fine for this use case. But I'd have to bite my nails hoping it would work on browser 'X' for other use cases, which is simply not worth the headache. Cross browser compatibility is a real pain, you know? For me JQuery does it very well.

And good luck using your new ajax function :)

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Drop support for old IE browsers, why are people still trying to fight to support them. I agree with the blog post, one day people will finally drop support for non-HTML5 browsers (IE8 and below) and they will see how easy it is to write clear, short native code that works fine in all browsers.

It will take time though as many people aren't even familiar with the native APIs.

You want to know why people worry about older versions of IE? Because a large enough chunk of their visitors still use those browsers. It's that simple.

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