My first Ajax app

[dougo]

I want to get my feet wet with some Ajax programming. Should I start by using XMLHttpRequest directly? Or, which framework should I use, Prototype, jQuery, GWT, or something else? Wikipedia has a comparison of frameworks, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

It's a simple but useful/real app. No fancy UI stuff, just asynchronous POSTs and some dynamic rearrangement of content. What do you like about jQuery over Prototype?