http://simonwillison.net/2008-04-22T19:02:02+00:00Simon Willison2008-04-22T19:02:02+00:002008-04-22T19:02:02+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/22/reading/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://nagoon97.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/reading-binary-files-using-ajax/">Reading binary files using Ajax</a></strong></p> There’s a simple trick for Firefox, and (amazingly) you can get IE to play along using a function written in VBScript. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajax">ajax</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/binary">binary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vbscript">vbscript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xmlhttprequest">xmlhttprequest</a></p>