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		benwr on May 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly pre... Hard to forget, given that you have to type "XMLHttpRequest" every time you do any AJAX (The 'X' in which stands for XML, iirc).

mindstab on May 5, 2012 | [–]

haha ah right! Excellent (and tragic) example! I've been using jQuery too much at work and been spoilt by $.get() ;)

batista on May 5, 2012 | [–]

No you don't, since 99% of the time you'd use some library for that, like jQuery.

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