The premier open-source platform for rich internet applications. Using the XML HTTP Request object. This article was originally written in April 2002, I've decided to fix and update it as the objects finally seem to be getting some popularity.
The 2002 version is still available, as are the September 2004 and August 2005 versions. This version January 2006. Internet Explorer on Windows, Safari on Mac OS-X, Mozilla on all platforms, Konqueror in KDE, IceBrowser on Java, and Opera on all platforms including Symbian provide a method for client side javascript to make HTTP requests. From the humble begins as an oddly named object with few admirers, it's blossomed to be the core technology in something called AJAX [ 1 ].
Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object.