Gordon Weakliem references Patrick Logan who references Philippe Bossut who references Alex Russell’s OSCON talk on AJAX. The little tid-bit that gets me excited is the quote “Best data type to return: JavaScript instead of XML”. I want to add an emphatic “yes!” to that. Only a crazy fool manipulates XML on the client-side when manipulating Javascript is so much easier. And, yes, I also want add another link to this long chain of attributions.