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Friday, February 11, 2005 XMLHttpRequest

So I've been doing a bit of work with XMLHttpRequest lately to do dynamic updates on web application pages behind the scenes and type-ahead drop downs. I thought this was a great example and I've made some modifications for better IE support (z-order with drop downs on the page, deal with IE caching GET requests, and some minor interaction bugs). Pretty cool stuff really. I'll post those updates soon.

# posted by tomjanofsky @ 10:32 AM

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# posted by Anonymous : 2:32 AM

Tom,

If you interested in XMLHttpRequest have a look at Rico (http://openrico.org). I've been using it in my current project and it makes using XmlHttpRequest a breeze.

Rico does not have out-of-the-box autocomplete and live-search capabilities however.

~ amol

# posted by Amol Deshmukh : 3:25 PM

If you REALLY like this kind of stuff, take a look at the RIA world:

http://www.laszlosystems.com/

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/

Both use the Flash player to present platform independent stateful client VM's, in the spirit of what Java promised in the days of Dancing Duke, but without the nightmare of Swing.

Flash: it's not just for Skip Intro anymore!

# posted by Anonymous : 7:47 PM