Cross-origin Ajax requests don't work in Opera and IE9?

Question

I am using this page - http://ecmazing.com/cors.html - to make a cross-origin Ajax request to this resource: http://hacheck.tel.fer.hr/xml.pl

It works in Chrome, Saf

Answer 1

I got so frustrated trying to use CORS with IE and jQuery, I wrote a library to smooth over the worst parts.

Yeah, Microsoft's shortage of cash and manpower have kept them from making their browsers properly CORS-compliant in the seven short years they've had to do it in, but I still prefer CORS to JSONP, which, frankly, is a hack.