Jesse James Garrett on Ajax
Jesse James Garrett breaks down the Next. Big. Thing. in web application development: AJAX.
Ajax stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript + XML.” As Garrett explains:
Ajax isn’t a technology. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
- standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
- dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
- data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
- asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
- and JavaScript binding everything together.