September 29th, 2008The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong
I’ve just started my journey into the land of JavaScript for real and am learning things most of you already know. For example, as the Silicon Valley Code Camp coordinator and web site author, I just recently decided to add a Virtual Earth Map showing attendees and speakers (see the home page). I wrote a simple web response handler that returns all the data in JSON so I could plot the data. Then, after a couple searches on the web, I found a way to send a request to the service asynchronously and get the result. The code looks something like this:
