Third-party AJAX libraries?

[Chris]

We'd like to upgrade our webapp to use AJAX, specifically, I'd like to be
able to put interactive popup pages over my HTML, and I'd like to be able to
fetch dynamic data from the server without doing a page refresh.

I am extremely not interested in writing the low-level code to do this
myself. (I've tried to write cross-browser stuff using layers in the past
and it's very time-consuming). Are there any good, well-tested third-party
Javascript libraries out there that take care of all the dirty work?

I'm very willing to pay for something good. Open source is nice, but good
docs and support is more important.

[lio]

http://prototype.conio.net/

Regards, LIOL

[phil_gg04]

> We'd like to upgrade our webapp to use AJAX, specifically, I'd like
to be

able to put interactive popup pages over my HTML, and I'd like to be able to fetch dynamic data from the server without doing a page refresh.

sarissa.sourceforge.net does a good job of hiding the low-level
XmlHttpRequest stuff, and has some utility stuff to, for example,
replace the HTML of some page element with new content from the server.

--Phil.

[Matt Kruse]

ph*******@treefic.com wrote:

sarissa.sourceforge.net does a good job of hiding the low-level
XmlHttpRequest stuff, and has some utility stuff to, for example,
replace the HTML of some page element with new content from the
server.

I don't see a lot of value being added by Sarissa. It's heavy on XML, and I
tend to prefer JSON.

--
Matt Kruse
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com