Tutorial: AJAX

[acompton]

what we want to bring back is a customvar on the products. can the split be done based on that?

In effect, create your product sections this way - I wondered about that.

also can it bring back the main image of the product?

Mine is driven off the Froogle feed data, which I post-process with a command-line program. Any data that is in that feed (or a Mole-End feed) can theoretically be presented in this way.

I see it as an alternative customer search. Some people have a product title in mind and will use the list instead of the search, and something else might catch their eye. Also, the hobby gamers visit the site with a list of titles they've got their eye on. Its an easy way for them to browse the complete product list - and possibly spot something they hadn't thought of.

[completerookie]

just a thought, all urls are loaded from the cache if available, else it goes back to the server. so the trick is giving the url an absolutely unique url

try adding ?now=now() to the end of the url to make it absolutely unique

your system needs a javascript function now() that returns a number
(I will leave that for you to find on the net)

doing this, will force the url to become unique to the user, it will look up in the cache, not find it, so will go back to the server to get the newer version.

kev