The easy way into Ajax with AHAH

Elsewhere on this site is a description of AHAH, a simplified version of Ajax used primarily for updating (X)HTML elements in a browser-displayed page, without the hassles of parsing and transforming returned XML.



Here we present a simple project to use AHAH to grab the contents of a remote website's 'description' metatag, and display it on the page. Try it by entering a domain name (e.g. www.cnn.com) into the URL field and clicking on Fetch: