Introducing jQuery Part 5

Thanks for reading the final part in the Introduction to jQuery series, in this part of the tutorial we’ll be looking solely at the suite of AJAX functionality provided by the library. One of the worst (and one of the only) downsides of AJAX is that it is implemented differently by different browsers; notably IE and everyone else. The fact that you have to basically write two different functions to achieve one goal can bloat your code and add to its complexity unnecessarily.