Working directly with the XMLHttpRequest has always been a pain and it was almost always abstracted by some library, in particular jQuery has its own helper functions built around it: Quite a few years after this, GMail and other rich apps made heavy use of it, and made the approach so popular that it had to have a name: AJAX. Since IE5 was released in 1998, we’ve had the option to make asynchronous network calls in the browser using XMLHttpRequest (XHR).
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