Comments on: AJAX is the New DHTML http://blog.james-carr.org/2008/02/02/ajax-is-the-new-dhtml/ Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ethan Vizitei http://blog.james-carr.org/2008/02/02/ajax-is-the-new-dhtml/#comment-49165 Ethan Vizitei Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:04:27 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/2008/02/02/ajax-is-the-new-dhtml/#comment-49165 It's a common foundation of conversation, you can be using the same words and be speaking entirely different languages. "Ax" used to be a noun meaning a tool used for chopping wood; now it's a verb ("can I ax you something?"). Likewise, AJAX (as you point out) was coined as an acronym to encompess the asyncrhonous communication of a browser client with a server using javascript and xml; Now it means "Nifty animation tricks". Oh well. ;-) It’s a common foundation of conversation, you can be using the same words and be speaking entirely different languages. “Ax” used to be a noun meaning a tool used for chopping wood; now it’s a verb (“can I ax you something?”). Likewise, AJAX (as you point out) was coined as an acronym to encompess the asyncrhonous communication of a browser client with a server using javascript and xml; Now it means “Nifty animation tricks”.

Oh well. ;-)

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