echo3/echo3 — pull request #18 by bschmid (2012-02-23 10:59:55+00:00)
Title: Workaround for IE9 bug eating newlines in textareas

Serialize (if possible) the xmlDocument before sending via xmlHttpRequest due to an ie9 special behaviour on formatting xmlDoms's.
IE9 removes all newlines from a xmlDocument and inserts some own newlines to pretty format the xml-Struture.

Due to an ie9 special behaviour on formatting xmlDoms's. IE9 removes all newlines from a xmlDocument and inserts some own newlines to pretty format the xml-Struture.

Based on varios discussions and some test's this might be the best way to prevent ie9 (nad maybe som upcomming releases of ie) to format xmlDocuments. See here for more details:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/0e8c403d-3d46-4ba2-899e-54ed2261d1e3

This hotfix fixes some strange behavior described on forum:
http://echo.nextapp.com/site/node/6669
http://echo.nextapp.com/site/node/6686