By the action of one will the many be brought low

The story finally hit Slashdot: a Wordpress developer uses unethical means
to raise money for the site/project. While WordPress the project and
software will continue, the blight this action caused undermines not
only the integrity of the project as a whole, but the person that
perpetrated this. Rather than using the various, well-proven, methods
for raising funds he turns to a search engine spamming company. It will
take a lot for the project to repair their reputation and after this
act.

XMLHttpRequest possibilities

As it seems everyone is doing, lately I’ve been playing with XMLHttpRequest. The odd part about all this is the functionality has existed for many years in MS IE (since 5.0), and in the Mozilla based browsers for awhile, but only with the advent of such web apps as Google Suggest has it become the Blogosphere darling.

Anyway, XMLHttpRequest can return far more than XML text. Indeed,
performance-wise, that may be the advantage. To demonstrate this I
wrote a quick page that has the server returning values that are translatable into Javascript types such as Arrays, Functions and Objects. View: XMLHttpRequest Testing