Awesome! Love it, love the well thought explanation; very consise and very readable and ultimately lowers the hurdle more than any others on AJAX which myn eyes have read today or previously.

I do NOT like/use/no PHP, but dig how it can be used in place of ActiveX for posting w/o refresh – which is the ultimate end game issue. Do you have any excellent redirections to how-to w/o PHP?

Here are typos:

1) make:

“The function madeEditable() attaches the mouseover…”

should say:

makeEditable instead of madeEditable.

2) , false

“Event.observe(obj.id+’_cancel’, ‘click’, function(){cleanUp(obj)}, false);”

should have a ”, false)” parameter in the call to cleanUp as in:

Event.observe(obj.id+’_cancel’, ‘click’, function(){cleanUp(obj,false)}, false);