Old: XMLHttpRequest, New: Ajax

February 22nd, 2005  |  Published in Blogroll, CSS, Code Development, Tools I Use

Old: XMLHttpRequest, New: Ajax:

I’ve blogged here before about XMLHttpRequest, and a frequent complaint about that term (besides “which letters get capitalized, again?”) is that’s it’s too unwieldy and needs a better name. Jesse James Garrett and Adaptive Path have a suggestion: Ajax, a new approach to web applications.

The name comes from Asynchronous Javascript And Xml, and while it’s better than XMLHttpRequest, I still wish someone would come up with a name that’s more Google-unique.

(Via Backup Brain.)

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