PUBLIC MARKS from nhoizey with tags xmlhttprequest & javascript

AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS

IE7 will include a native XMLHTTPRequest object for Javascript applications - no ActiveXObject needs to be created

ajax im ("asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger") is a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript to send and receive commands to and from the server. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this "web application" to work, as everything is updated in real-time via JavaScript.

Manage XMLHttpRequest with this class

FlickrJS is a wrapper to use the Flickr API from javascript through xmlhttprequest’s. Or, in a more fancy way, using AJAX techniques to get data without reload the whole page. By including only a .js file you get access to the whole Flicrk API. You don’t need to know how the request have to be done, or how the XML have to be parsed. The wrapper do all the jobs and lets you specify a callback function on each Flickr Method.

Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.