Recently I wrote an AJAX-based file explorer which uses an underlying XML document for all of its semantic structure. The idea is that a tree structure is served via PHP (in my case) or some other mechanism (in some other case) and then represented as a navigable directory structure in a browser.
The request is made […]

If you’d like to use setTimeout() or setInterval() methods for specific object methods, you can do so by using a function closure in the following manner:
function Foo(bar)
{
this.bar = bar;
this.alertBar = function () {
alert(this.bar);
};
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