Comments on: YUI3 Lets You Call Webservices With No Server Required

By: Tatyana Timar

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By: Alex S

Alex S — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:39:46 +0000

If i understand well this YUI3 works just for Yahoo?

By: bracyman

bracyman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:59:54 +0000

Nope. Though the cross-domain problem isn’t a problem if you’re dealing with a webservice that responds with JSON, as all the Yahoo! services do.

The post grew out of a conversation about divorcing the JSF from the data layer, trying to find a different way than the standard JSF – Entity – DAO – Hibernate session pattern. If you’re dealing with service calls to your own server to handle data manipulation, there wouldn’t be a cross domain issue, so I didn’t really think of it when I wrote.

Though while I was investigating, I found an early project called FlashXmlHttpRequest, which uses an embedded flash element to get around the cross domain problem.

By: Paris Holley

Paris Holley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:54:11 +0000

Is YUI doing some behind the scenes browser hacks to get around the cross-domain restrictions (article kind of implied you can call ANY webservice)? There are a few but I’m not sure there is a solution for every browser.