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Learning AJAX: Lesson 4 - Using The XMLHttpRequest To Get Your Data

Posted on Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Time to finish off my short series on simple AJAX. I started a while ago with an explanation on not using AJAX, then I backed that up with an unobtrusive way of adding a link to a page using JavaScript so that we only use AJAX when JavaScript is available. In the last post I explained, simply, the XMLHttpRequest and now I will show you what to do with it, culminating in the completion of a very simple, AJAX powered random quote generator.

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