Fresh: Nuts and bolts

XIV.5 September + October 2007
Page: 10
Digital Citation

What does AJAX mean for you?


Authors:
Daniel Zucker

We have all heard a lot about AJAX. But aside from being a four-letter acronym, what is AJAX, and what does AJAX mean to you, the UI designer? This article is intended to shed some light on AJAX at an introductory level. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, but has come to represent much more than that. AJAX represents an entire new paradigm in Web design. Moving forward from the single-page paradigm of the Web, AJAX enables a design style that is more dynamic and more interactive, much more like a regular desktop application. While AJAX is used…




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