AJAX is dumb

The deal with AJAX is, that JavaScript is so far behind that you need huge libraries to do anything good. One of the things they always make are auto-updating search boxes where they search the database as you type. Here is the same thing in Flash, but without the 180K of Prototype and Scriptaculous. I know you can compress it down but this will compile down to about 4k but maybe a little bigger depending on what kind of button you have. I do make HTML sites, but some of these examples are just crazy.

var samples:Array = ["suggestion1", "suggestion2", "suggestion3"];

var myString:String = samples[random(samples.length)];

var inField:Boolean = false;

var loader:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

var txt:TextField; // the search box
var suggestedTxt:TextField;
txt.text = myString;
txt.onSetFocus  = function(){
if( this.text == myString ){
this.text = "";  inField = true;
}
}
txt.onKillFocus = function(){ if(this.text == ""){
myString = samples[random(samples.length)];
inField = false; this.text = myString; }
}

var btn:MovieClip;
btn.onRollOver = function(){ this.gotoAndStop(2); }
btn.onRollOut  = function(){ this.gotoAndStop(1); }
btn.onRelease  = function(){
getURL( "/search.php?query="+txt.text );
}

var keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function(){
if( Key.getCode() == Key.ENTER && txt.text != myString && txt.text != "" ){
getURL("/contact/search/?query="+txt.text);
}else if( inField ){
loader.onLoad = function(){
 // this is the response from the server
 _root.suggestedTxt.text = this;
}
loader.load( "/search.php?query=" + txt.text );
}
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);