How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax, Pt. 1

In recent months, a technique that had not been widely supported in the past has become available to a large number of web surfers, giving developers more freedom to develop cutting-edge web applications. These applications, which asynchronously retrieve XML data via JavaScript, are affectionately known as “Ajax applications” (Asynchronous Javascript and XML applications). In this article, lets see how to retrieve a remote XML file via Ajax to update a web page, and as this series continues, we will see more ways that Ajax technology can be used to take your web applications to the next level.