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Hello, a couple of days ago I was considering building a library like this (client-side javascript) and incorporating it into a bioinformatics web application. However, I ran into some issues during the design phase when I realized that using XMLHTTPRequest() would supposedly not work do to the browser blocking cross domain XMLHTTPRequest() for security reasons.

NCBI doesn't support anything like JSONP or CORS so some people set up an AJAX endpoint (with caching) called EntrezAJAX (essentially a proxy).

Did you happen to take into account cross domain scripting issues and find away around them?