XMLHttpRequest possibilities
Written 31 Mar 2005
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