Include external content via ajax + hidden object

[molendijk]

1) TITLE: Include external content via ajax + hidden object

2) AUTHOR NAME/NOTES: Arie Molendijk

3) DESCRIPTION: External content that is fetched with Ajax doesn't display foreign characters (é, ñ etc.) well. At least, this is true if the transformations are performed on the client (Google the Internet to see what I mean; see this, for instance).

This problem does not occur if external content is extracted with the help of a hidden object (or iframe) and innerHTML (see this). But that method has its own limitations: it does not allow us to automatically access the js and the css belonging to the external files.

So I combined the two methods

4) URL TO CODE: http://molendijk.110mb.com/include_via_ajax_and_object/includer.html