I must admit that the xmlhttprequest thing ( I can’t currently use the “a” word without wanting to punch myself in the face repeatedly) seems pretty interesting. It still relies on having Javascript turned on of course although I’ve never seen any data to show what proportion have js turned off so it may not matter anyway.
The point is to put a bit of thought into where and when it’s used so the user isn’t punished for their choices. What’s the phrase, “graceful degredation”?
Being the form freak that I am you can bet the xmlhttprequest thing (txt ?) is going to be sneaking into some of my work but not being a javascript coder I couldn’t really see how it all came together. There’s a post on rajshekhar.net that describes the process in a format that even I can understand. I think I’ve found a good enough reason to get to grips with javascript.
Rajshekhar link was via Deep Resonance.
Nice you see you about again :P And that was an excellent link. I’d pretty much thought that AJAX was voodoo up to this point… seems quite simple now.