Negus Live Linux Series Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications

Appendix B. A Quick and Dirty XMLHttpRequest Reference

Although the major premise of this book is to empower you to use Ajax without having to immerse yourself in the nitty-gritty details of asynchronous JavaScript coding, you may get motivated enough by the examples to dive into Ajax programming. If so, you will need to understand the XMLHttpRequest object inside and out—this object houses the primary functionality responsible for making Ajax work. This appendix provides you with a concise reference to the XMLHttpRequest object, along with a few helpful hints about how to best use its methods and properties. For a complete reference on all of the objects supported by the core JavaScript language, please refer to http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference ...