Here are my two favorite tags on blinklist:

    rants
    ajax
 

They're even better when combined globally: ajax+rants.

But to my dismay, I'm only one of two users that has combined these tags. Come on people! Let's find all those crazy rants about AJAX before they get lost!

I'd like to share some really basic Javascript code that handles asynchronous XMLHTTP functionality in a bit more of a generic way than you can accomplish by hand coding each request. This is REALLY simple stuff, but I found it to be useful. It's not like the fullblown "AJAX frameworks", and it isn't intended to be. It's just a starting poing for doing basic work with the XMLHTTP object.

You can see the code here.

Here's the simple usage of the functions:

var xmlRequest = "SOME REQUEST TO POST";
saxf_sendAsync("http://tempuri.org/", xmlRequest, ReceiveSingleValue);

function ReceiveSingleValue(ResponseText, ResponseStatus)
{
 alert(ResponseText);
}

And here's a situation where you need to wait for two requests to return before doing anything:

var xmlRequest = "SOME REQUEST TO POST";
saxf_sendAsync("http://tempuri.org/page1", xmlRequest, ReceiveFirstValue);
saxf_sendAsync("http://tempuri.org/page2", xmlRequest, ReceiveSecondValue);

var FirstReturned = false;
function ReceiveFirstValue(ResponseText, ResponseStatus)
{
 if (SecondReturned)
  EverythingBack();

 FirstReturned = true;
}

var SecondReturned = false;
function ReceiveSecondValue(ResponseText, ResponseStatus)
{
 if (FirstReturned)
  EverythingBack();

 SecondReturned = true;
}

function EverythingBack()
{
 alert("We got both back");
}

Andy just posed a Wiki page for sakima: Sakima.Ivy.NET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After he pointed me to the post, we were discussing the old-school "computer brag pages" of the past:

[13:22] ajsphila: wiki article is the new computer brag page
[13:22] ajsphila: remember how everyone had those?  
[13:22] chipchldr: yup
[13:23] chipchldr: the wiki article is more fun though