Take a look at that dev thread, I go into some detail about it all there. In brief, JSON is a data exchange format. AJAX is a catch-all name to describe using asynchronous javascript calls, usually through xmlhttprequest(), to dynamically update webpages (usually through manipulating DOM elements that are well defined through CSS). The X in AJAX is for XML, which refers to the format of the response text sent back by the webserver. However, there is no explicit tie to XML. Some people choose to use JSON. I evaluated both JSON and XML and came to the conclusion that returning simple plain text was quite adequate, given the relative simplicity of return data from slimserver.
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