Spank My Wookie

Is Ajax the holy grail of web development? Nope. It is certainly cool to incorporate all these buzz words onto a site. But with some of the browsers out there still not incorporating some features, it is harder to get off the ground.

For example, my app calls an external service, which returns XHTML snippet. It needs to be formatted for display. What are my options? SAX parse it? XSLT it from the browser side? OR simply output it and let the stylesheets handle it?

Shortcomings:
Back Button problems
XSLT is not available on all browsers
DOM is still not that efficient on Safari.
HTTP request can only be made to the same server the page is served on.

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