Archive May 2009

Quick and easy AJAX with JSON-RPC

Quick and easy AJAX with JSON-RPC

The web has come a long way since the days of intrepid coders hacking asynchronous content into pages with hidden iframes and dynamically loaded javascript files. Today we take the ease of use that standardized support for XMLHttpRequests (XHR) affords for granted. Libraries like Prototype and jQuery help to clean up code by handling generating requests and processing return values but we can do better. Here’s where RPC comes in.

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