function doBake2ShareCount(){
  doBake2ShareWidget('flour','flourCount'); 
  doBake2ShareWidget('participant','participantCount');
  doBake2ShareWidget('recipient','recipientCount');
}


function doBake2ShareWidget(type,widget_id) {

//alert('doing widget named '+widget_id+' from uri '+widget_url);
var widget_request;
var widget_url = '/shop/Bake2ShareCount?type='+type;
var parameters='foo=bar';

    // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object
    widget_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         widget_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (widget_request.overrideMimeType) {
         // set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            widget_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
           //alert('matches windows');
         try {
            widget_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               widget_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!widget_request) {
         //alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
       
      widget_request.onreadystatechange = function(){ 
           if (widget_request.readyState == 4) {
	    if (widget_request.status == 200) {
	    //alert('response back for '+widget_id);
	    if(document.getElementById(widget_id)){
	    //alert('supposed to set widget named '+widget_id);
	    document.getElementById(widget_id).innerHTML = widget_request.responseText;
	    }
	    } 
	     }
	       };
	         
      widget_request.open('GET', widget_url, true);
      widget_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      widget_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      widget_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      widget_request.send(parameters);


}