Datasheet

Download images
You can download only text and XML using Ajax. Or can you? One of the examples you’re going to
see in this book lets you use Ajax together with dynamic HTML to download images. This example
is shown in Figure 1.18.
FIGURE 1.18
In this example you can download images.
When you click a button, this example downloads and displays an image, as shown in Figure 1.19.
So is Ajax really downloading that image? Isn’t Ajax limited to downloading text and XML?
FIGURE 1.19
In this example you can download a new image without refreshing the page.
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