Nice quote from Nat
"Gmail and Google Suggest have begun to lift the wool of obstinance from the eyes of the old-school fat client nerds..."—Nat
Sooo true. We used the XMLHttp object for a bunch of query interfaces in a recent project, and it so changes everything.
Interested folks will also want may want to check out the latest version of the WHAT spec and/or the X-Toys library. Warning, if you've never read over a W3Cish spec. before than you'll probably just want to glance at the introduction.