If you’ve read my post on Internet Explorer 8 and cross-domain requests then you know that Internet Explorer 8 implements a new object called XDomainRequest. For this post I put together a little sample using HTTP GET and a WCF web service to demonstrate the object.. [More]

Invoking cross-site services from client-side JavaScript generally requires the use of a proxy, however Internet Explorer 8 introduces the XDomainRequest object that allows for cross-site requests directly from JavaScript, a proxy may no longer be required for mashups.. [More]