A technical document on Apple’s Web site tells developers how to return SOAP data to Internet Explorer 5.1 running on Mac OS X. The doc is called Web services and IE 5.
SOAP itself is an XML-based protocol for exchanging information. Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 7 incorporate technology for making SOAP calls via JavaScript, but Apple’s documentation reports that IE 5 for Mac OS X does not.
“This doesn’t mean that Mac users are left out in the cold, it just means that we need to find an alternative method of making data from SOAP operations available to the browser without requiring a page refresh,” explained the author. The rest of the document details how to do that.
As a technical document on Apple’s developer Web site, this article probably doesn’t contain any information that’s terribly useful for the average user, but if you’re a developer who wants to find out how best to get IE 5 working with SOAP on OS X, this may provide some illumination.
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