The IE6 throws javascript error on this line:
if(XMLHttpRequest)
Here is the code that works on IE6 (and probably on IE5.5 too):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function(){
document.getElementById("aside").innerHTML="<img src='loadingImage.gif'>";
var x = null;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var x = new ActiveXObject('MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0');
} else {
// fallback
}
x.open("GET", "other_content_1.php", true);
x.send("");
x.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(x.readyState == 4) {
if(x.status==200)
document.getElementById("aside").innerHTML = x.responseText;
else
document.getElementById("aside").innerHTML = "Error loading document";
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="aside">This is other content</div>
</body>
</html>