XMLHttpRequest Object Funk Wonder how some web sites seem to be able to retrive database data without reloading the whole page or extensive use of frames? Guess no more. Most good web developers have known about this but I am just figuring it out and I think it's pretty dandy. Apple's developer site ha a pretty good article on it. You can find it here: Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object

Here's some XMLHttp (aka ajax - "Asynchronus Javascript something or other") related bookmarks from the social bookmarking site del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/tag/ajax

some site examples:
GMail
Google Maps
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