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I've had exactly this type of conversation with a young junior dev. "AJAX requests are easy - just use the Forms API." They have no idea that in 2005 I read a whole book on 'how to make an AJAX request'.



Just getting a reference to the XMLHttpRequest object required twelve lines of code :|




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