How to change the title of page through jQuery?

Question

I want to change the title of page dynamically. I have lots of AJAX request going on in my page. On each type of response I want to notify this using the title.

Answer 1

document.title = "newtitle" 

is the only valid way as far as I know. manipulating

$("title") 

will fail on IE8.

There are subtle differences between the title tag and document.title, it appears browsers treat them differently.