Do I need jsonp?

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Published on 2010-04-15T02:09:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 2:13 UTC
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Since firefox 3, cross domain XmlHttpRequest is available. As my understand, jsonp is also doing something about cross domain. If I only need to deal with firefox 3, do I still need to use jsonp?

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