AJAX Browser Support

The keystone of AJAX is the XMLHttpRequest object.
Different browsers use different methods to create the XMLHttpRequest object.
Internet Explorer uses an ActiveXObject, while other browsers uses the built-in JavaScript object called XMLHttpRequest.
To create this object, and deal with different browsers, we are going to use a "try and catch" statement.

function ajaxFunction()
{ var xmlHttp;
try
{ // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); }
catch (e)
{ // Internet Explorer try
{ xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }
catch (e)
{ try
{ xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }
catch (e)
{ alert("Your browser does not support AJAX!"); return false;
}
}
}
}