What is AJAX? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Javascript had increasingly lost popularity among web designers until it was revived with the development of AJAX. The objective of AJAX technologies is to add interactivity through a combination of techniques. Frequent small exchanges of amounts of data between client and server mean that the whole web page does not have to be reloaded in response to every user request.

Ironically, several of the techniques that constitute AJAX – Javascript, iframes, etc - were considered programming sins before the Web 2.0 explosion. Just goes to show how things change over time…

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