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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
one thing that always bugged me when designing web-based products was the (seemingly) irrevocable law of html-based user-interfaces: if you want to change the data in a page you need to reload it with its entire interface. a clear disadvantage towards PC-based applications. (or could you imagine MS word re-loading entirely every time you open a menu?) but those times are finally over. thanks to a technology called XMLHttpRequest web-pages can now “phone home” to the server for new data, with the help of javascript, without having to reload. thanks to oddpost , who afaik used it first in big scale, and a couple of other innovative companies we now can look at some interesting usage examples:
