diff --git a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/minibar.js b/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/minibar.js
index e11c99c9b..d586ffa5a 100644
--- a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/minibar.js
+++ b/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/minibar.js
@@ -30,41 +30,37 @@ var server = {
     switch_grammar: function(grammar_name) {
 	this.current_grammar_url=options.grammars_url+grammar_name;
     },
-    
     get_grammarlist: function(cont) {
-	jsonpf(options.grammars_url+"grammars.cgi",cont);
+	http_get_json(options.grammars_url+"grammars.cgi",cont);
     },
     get_languages: function(cont) {
-	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url,cont);
+	http_get_json(this.current_grammar_url,cont);
     },
+    pgf_call: function(cmd,args,cont) {
+	var url=this.current_grammar_url+"?command="+cmd;
+	for(var arg in args) url+="&"+arg+"="+encodeURIComponent(args[arg]);
+	http_get_json(url,cont);
+    },
+
     get_random: function(cont) {
-	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url+"?command=random&random="+Math.random(),cont);
+	//jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url+"?command=random&random="+Math.random(),cont);
+	this.pgf_call("random",{random:Math.random()},cont);
     },
     linearize: function(tree,to,cont) {
 	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url+"?command=linearize&tree="
 	       +encodeURIComponent(tree)+"&to="+to,cont)
     },
     complete: function(from,input,cont) {
-	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url
-	       +"?command=complete"
-	       +"&from="+encodeURIComponent(from)
-	       +"&input="+encodeURIComponent(input),
-	       cont);
-
+	this.pgf_call("complete",{from:from,input:input},cont);
+    },
+    parse: function(from,input,cont) {
+	this.pgf_call("parse",{from:from,input:input},cont);
     },
     translate: function(from,input,cont) {
-	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url
-	       +"?command=translate"
-	       +"&from="+encodeURIComponent(from)
-	       +"&input="+encodeURIComponent(input),
-	       cont)
+	this.pgf_call("translate",{from:from,input:input},cont);
     },
     translategroup: function(from,input,cont) {
-	jsonpf(this.current_grammar_url
-	       +"?command=translategroup"
-	       +"&from="+encodeURIComponent(from)
-	       +"&input="+encodeURIComponent(input),
-	       cont)
+	this.pgf_call("translategroup",{from:from,input:input},cont);
     }
 
 };
diff --git a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/support.js b/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/support.js
index 7c34bad82..a568cdc11 100644
--- a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/support.js
+++ b/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/support.js
@@ -37,6 +37,55 @@ function jsonpf(url,callback)
     jsonp(url,"json."+name);
 }
 
+/* --- AJAX ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+function GetXmlHttpObject(handler)
+{ 
+  var objXMLHttp=null
+  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
+  {
+    objXMLHttp=new XMLHttpRequest()
+  }
+  else if (window.ActiveXObject)
+  {
+    objXMLHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
+  }
+  return objXMLHttp
+}
+
+function ajax_http_get(url,callback) {
+  var http=GetXmlHttpObject()
+  if (http==null) {
+    alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
+    return
+  } 
+  var statechange=function() {
+      if (http.readyState==4 || http.readyState=="complete")
+	  callback(http.responseText)
+  }
+  http.onreadystatechange=statechange
+  http.open("GET",url,true)
+  http.send(null)
+  //dump("http get "+url+"\n")
+  return http
+}
+
+// JSON via AJAX
+function ajax_http_get_json(url,cont) {
+    ajax_http_get(url,function(txt) { cont(eval("("+txt+")")); });
+}
+
+function sameOrigin(url) {
+    return hasPrefix(url,location.protocol+"//"+location.host+"/");
+}
+
+// Use AJAX when possible, fallback to JSONP
+function http_get_json(url,cont) {
+    if(sameOrigin(url)) ajax_http_get_json(url,cont);
+    else jsonpf(url,cont);
+}
+
+
 /* --- HTML construction ---------------------------------------------------- */
 function text(s) { return document.createTextNode(s); }