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I have a client that has their own version of IE installed in their large user base (I think this is very typical of large corporations). While they have JavaScript running, they have removed the XMLHTTP object. So, how do you do AJAX without XMLHTTP?

This tutorial explains from the very beginning how to use AJAX in web applications. It is assumed you have a knowledge of Javascript (with a little DOM) as well as a server side scripting language, although you should pick it up easily.

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In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to Ajax, a technology that allows you to send these requests through small JavaScript calls, meaning the user doesn't have to wait for the page to refresh.

A tutorial using a JavaScript Ajax library to make form submissions more usable.

This tutorial is about edit-in-place system which is used for quickly amending titles and descriptions on photographs.

Ajax is also a dangerous technology for Web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems. I�ve compiled a list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make.

This is a quick tutorial to get you jump started with Ajax. It uses object detection and explains some of the caveats for doing what is being done in the tutorial.

This article illustrates one method of benchmarking your Ajax applications as well as point out some of the major performance pitfalls that the author has encountered while developing Ajax components and applications.

In this article I'm going to show you three simple and practical uses for Ajax on your Web site. You'll need to know a bit of HTML, JavaScript, and PHP to follow along, but I'll do my best to explain everything in simple terms so you don't get lost.

In this installment, you'll learn how to use images and cookies to enable client-server communication even on older browsers that don't support the DOM.

This is a two-part tutorial on starting with Ajax. The first part of the article is using Ajax using the DOM innerHTML and the second part using nodes from XML.

This is an example of a good use of Ajax, and at the same time keeps it simple. It is a zip code verifier. As soon as the person enters the zip code it makes a request to the server to see if the zip code is in the database, and returns the city and state.

The XMLHttpRequest object is a handy JavaScript object that offers a convenient way for Web pages to get information from servers without refreshing themselves. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate through a series of baby steps just how easy it is to use the XMLHttpRequest object

In this article, the first of three parts, you will start creating a simple web-based POP 3 client using Ajax, which will use "XMLHttpRequest" objects to retrieve messages from a mail server.

This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and back button support to AJAX applications.

This article describes Prototype, an open source JavaScript library to create an object for an AJAX application. It explains how to use Prototype by describing an environmentally oriented web application that displays an annual atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level.

The tutorial discusses some of the limitations of the JSP application design and shows how a lightweight Ajax-based solution can help to overcome them. It introduces basic Ajax concepts and a popular Java toolkit called Direct Web Remoting (DWR). You'll convert the application to a lightweight design.

In this article, we will take fresh approach and implement an AJAX-powered component that will not only upload the file to server, but also monitor the actual progress of a file upload request in "real time."

This is a mini-tutorial on saving state across page loads on the client side, without using cookies so as to save large amounts of data beyond cookies size limits.