Software developer Sean Patrick Kane has created a JavaScript library for implementing AJAX functionality on a webpage. Called Feather AJAX, the script is less than 1KB in size and works in all modern browsers. The library is light-weight, and easily customizable.

Kane promises that his library is simple and easy to learn. Hosted on Kane’s personal website (www.celtickane.com/programming/code/ajax.php), the library can be downloaded for free. Users can also make changes if they wish to. “I only ask that you retain the comments at the top of the code that contains the original author information,” says Kane.

Advantages of Feather Ajax
• Extremely customizable - The code is so small and compact, it's easy to figure out how it works, and change it to the way that developers like it

• Cross-Browser Support - It works on most, if not all, mainstream browsers that support Javascript. It has a built-in redundancy system to ensure that it will work

• Extremely light weight - The code isn't bloated, so webpages will load fast. The entire purpose of Feather AJAX is to get the job done and over with easily.

• Object Oriented - Because it's object oriented, it gets around an AJAX bug that is really annoying. If one tries to have two AJAX connections going at the same time in Firefox, the second one will fail and an error complaining about NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED. As long as the developers create two objects with different names, this error won't present itself.

Two versions of Feather AJAX are available: a commented version, which serves as documentation, and an uncommented one that saves bandwidth.