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22nd April 2008 - Link Blog

Reading binary files using Ajax. There’s a simple trick for Firefox, and (amazingly) you can get IE to play along using a function written in VBScript.

Posted 22nd April 2008 at 7:02 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd April 2008.

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