
Technology and Standards ◾ 261
Web experience. e new object was a success and was emulated by Mozilla with their
introduction of XMLHttpRequest.
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Standardization is now carried out by W3C.
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e data are normally exchanged in the form of XML, hence the name, but other text-
based formats are possible, and indeed JavaScript Object Notations (JSON)
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is becoming
popular amongst developers (Governor et al. 2009). e JavaScript code snippet below
shows the basic idea. e rst line creates a new XMLHttpRequest object. e second line
prepares a new HTTP request, specifying that the HTTP GET method will be used and it
will be sent to the Mozil ...