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  • Fidelis Chime
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    Ajax Basic

    Posted January 3, 2023 9:34pm by Fidelis Chime
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  • Ricky Redman
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    this looks correct

    Posted August 23, 2021 5:51pm by Ricky Redman
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  • Thomas Scott
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    if I am creating a variable for an object do I HAVE to use var? Or can I use let?

    Posted May 19, 2021 12:31am by Thomas Scott
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  • Michael Vautour
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    Can this be updated to accept let's / const's, it only validated with a 'var'

    Posted February 5, 2021 10:30pm by Michael Vautour
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  • Bashar Ghadanfar
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    I tried defining the XHR variable using let instead of var, the quiz gave me an error.

    Posted January 4, 2021 10:31am by Bashar Ghadanfar
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  • Silvia Ramos
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    LET and VAR

    Posted June 7, 2020 5:57pm by Silvia Ramos
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  • seth aruby
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    Why const vs let when assigning new XMLHttpRequest() object to variable?

    Posted March 17, 2020 8:26pm by seth aruby
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  • Ewerton Luna
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    Can I use let instead of var to declare a XMLHttpRequest object? The challenge doesn't accepts using let keyword

    Posted October 3, 2019 6:40pm by Ewerton Luna
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