Using AJAX instead of JSONP can give better caching in the browser, since the
URL doesn't need to contain a (dynamically generated) callback function name.
But because of the same origin policy in JavaScript, AJAX can only be used when
the HTML file is served from the same server as the PGF. The new function
http_get_json in support.js uses AJAX if this is the case, and falls back to
JSONP otherwise.