[thelist] TIP: Browser/server interactivity without page reloads

[Ian Anderson]

VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK wrote:

>
>Although the clients will be *ahem* forced (well we have reasons) to
>use MSIE, I prefer something cross-browser.
>
As Volkan will see when he visits it, the technique described in that 
article *is* cross-browser compatible; it's a great article that unlocks 
the technique used in "Ajax" applications like Google Maps and Google 
Suggest; using a JavaScript method called XMLHttpRequest to send data to 
and query data from server side apps without reloading the whole page.

The data returned doesn't have to be XML, apparently, but can be any 
text string.

It's going to be one of those epoch-making articles, I think, like Paul 
Souden's Style switcher piece in alistapart. I'm still reeling from the 
possibilities and from how easy it looks.

Cheers
Ian