Testing Ajax
For "learn new stuff Friday" I wanted to see if I could get an ajax script working. Ajax is really just a way for javascript to access data from a server and update the page without having to reload. A simple way to start with this is to try out the Firefox Download counter
that was made by Infocraft. It requires you to put a mirror of the feed on your server since xmlHttpRequests can only grab data from the same server. It is all explained on his page. So here should be a ticker for how many times the Firefox web browser has been downloaded. It just passed 50 million:
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The feed only updates every minute, so it counts along evenly for a minute and then updates itself to correct for the real value coming from the server.