On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:26:26 +0100 vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No offence, but I wish people would stop using the "AJAX" acronym, Ajax is a > dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of saying "look I > can use javascript" i.e something people have been doing for years </rant> > (sorry 'AJAX' is one of my pet annoyances) That aside it looks like a good > app. :-) And people saying AJAX is just javascript is a pet annoyance of mine too ;-) The term AJAX (as distinct from the footbal club Ajax) in its original usage refered not just to using Javascript . It's more about the fact the the code fetches the data instead of pulling it from the HTML file. see http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php The javascript actually writes the page based on the XML data it has collected , it can also filter and sort this data (think google maps). This is not very different from the conventional model where the data comes as part of the HTML file and updates don't happen without a page refresh. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX I think this destinction is important although the common misuse of the term would suggest that others don't . they are of course wrong ;-) Toodle-pip Amias - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
