jQuery – Illegal invocation

I think you need to have strings as the data values. It’s likely something internally within jQuery that isn’t encoding/serializing correctly the To & From Objects. Try: Notice also on the lines: You don’t need the jQuery wrapper as To & From are already jQuery objects.

JavaScript implementation of Gzip

Edit There appears to be a better LZW solution that handles Unicode strings correctly at http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html (Thanks to pieroxy in the comments). I don’t know of any gzip implementations, but the jsolait library (the site seems to have gone away) has functions for LZW compression/decompression. The code is covered under the LGPL.

How does AJAX work?

If you are totally new to AJAX (which stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML), the AJAX entry on wikipedia is a good starting point: Like DHTML and LAMP, AJAX is not a technology in itself, but a group of technologies. AJAX uses a combination of: HTML and CSS for marking up and styling information. The DOM accessed … Read more

How does ajax work with python?

Usually, ajax handler on your server should return XML or JSON (I think JSON is better) with the data it needs. So, after getting info from the handler, dump(cast) it into a JSON object and return to client. On client, JavaScript receives this JSON, and after that should dynamically create html elements and insert them … Read more