Ajax Is Open for Business

We’ve all heard the significance of dynamic and hot-from-the-oven content to keep our web-sites relevant. With the advent of Web 2.0, web-sites once again impress us with easier to use and more responsive user experiences. These new enhancements are not powered by new technology, but rather by a new way of using old technology. This everything old is new again approach is called Ajax.

Technically speaking Ajax is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. JavaScript and XML are the building blocks of Ajax solutions and both have been around for years. Interestingly, the XML portion in practice runs in the background and is facilitated by standard HTTP requests. [...]