Those two article introduces the alternative ways how data can be updated without using XMLHttpRequest. Dynamically created Image is used. Only an Image, a stylesheet or a .js is used for the communication between the client and the server. The communication occurs without the need for the page to reload. Those techniques are not necessarily the most useful or efficient, they have been developed only for fun and to demonstrate their feasibility. For the code, look at this page's source and at the associated PHP file (comments are in french though).
This code is free as in "credits are appreciated", so use it or modify it as you want.
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