Read on for more articles, example and info!!
I smell a future follow up presentation.
For those of you who just were dying to see more cool things to do with this technique, I want you to go read Thomas Baekdal’s XMLHttpRequest Guidelines. Be sure to read the Ok, now you should have more information, but you want to make things easier. I understand that! Go check out the SAJAX project. The Simple Ajax toolkit will help you “export” custom-written php functions as javascript functions. It’s cool. Go look at it. Just don’t go exporting “mySystemBackdoor()” or something silly. 😉
Finally, you don’t care about all that. You just saying “Dan, c’mon. I just want something like Google Select!” I know, I know. But if I told you that up front, you never would have read those other articles, right? 😉
Finally, go check out the LiveSearch project from BitFlux. You can see it in action on their blog. I think you will agree, this where most of us will want to play…at least until we are sure about all those consequences of using this new tool.
Happy Coding!