document.getElementById("user1").innerHTML = "数据正在加载...";
      if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
        document.write(xmlhttp.responseText);
      }

function castVote(rank) {
 var url = "/ajax-demo/static-article-ranking.html";
 var callback = processAjaxResponse;
 executeXhr(callback, url);
}
需要异步通讯的函数： 


function executeXhr(callback, url) {
 // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object
 if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
  req = new XMLHttpRequest();
  req.onreadystatechange = callback;
  req.open("GET", url, true);
  req.send()(null);
 } // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
 else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
  req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  if (req) {
   req.onreadystatechange = callback;
   req.open("GET", url, true);
   req.send()();
  }
 }
}
req.onreadystatechange = callback
req.open("GET", url, true)

function processAjaxResponse() {
 if (req.readyState == 4) {
  // only if "OK"
  if (req.status == 200) {
   document.getElementById("user1").innerHTML = req.responseText;
  } else {
   alert("There was a problem retrieving the XML data:
" + req.statusText);
  }
 }
}