diff --git a/examples/topojson.js b/examples/topojson.js
index ce10ebd9f0..4b1e0adacd 100644
--- a/examples/topojson.js
+++ b/examples/topojson.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ goog.require('ol.View2D');
 goog.require('ol.layer.TileLayer');
 goog.require('ol.layer.Vector');
 goog.require('ol.parser.TopoJSON');
-goog.require('ol.proj');
 goog.require('ol.source.MapQuestOpenAerial');
 goog.require('ol.source.Vector');
 goog.require('ol.style.Polygon');
@@ -18,7 +17,8 @@ var raster = new ol.layer.TileLayer({
 
 var vector = new ol.layer.Vector({
   source: new ol.source.Vector({
-    projection: ol.proj.get('EPSG:4326')
+    url: 'data/topojson/world-110m.json',
+    parser: new ol.parser.TopoJSON()
   }),
   style: new ol.style.Style({rules: [
     new ol.style.Rule({
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ var vector = new ol.layer.Vector({
         new ol.style.Polygon({
           strokeColor: '#bada55',
           strokeWidth: 2,
-          opacity: 0.75
+          opacity: 0.9
         })
       ]
     })
@@ -43,30 +43,3 @@ var map = new ol.Map({
   })
 });
 
-map.on(['click', 'mousemove'], function(evt) {
-  map.getFeatureInfo({
-    pixel: evt.getPixel(),
-    layers: [vector],
-    success: function(featureInfo) {
-      document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = featureInfo[0];
-    }
-  });
-});
-
-
-var parser = new ol.parser.TopoJSON();
-var url = 'data/topojson/world-110m.json';
-var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
-xhr.open('GET', url, true);
-
-
-/**
- * onload handler for the XHR request.
- */
-xhr.onload = function() {
-  if (xhr.status == 200) {
-    var projection = map.getView().getProjection();
-    vector.parseFeatures(xhr.responseText, parser, projection);
-  }
-};
-xhr.send();