[BinaryIdiot]

It's not so bad honestly. Just a little awkward. For my little JavaScript library I wrote a small utility that lets me do Ajax calls that work in node and the browser. It's limited but it's all I need and it's pretty well tested (msngr if you're board).

$.Ajax is awesome and while XMLHttpRequest is awkward it's pretty straight forward.

[seanp2k2]

If that's all you're after, I'd suggest something like Zepto win only the Ajax module: http://zeptojs.com