Re: do not say AJAX
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Re: do not say AJAX

From: Matt Kruse <newsgroups@mattkruse.com>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 19:26:37 CET

ivan wrote:
> AJAX is a stupid and confusing word.

And yet, the coining of the term (in addition to google) helped push the
technology into use by a lot more people. So, having a term is a good thing.

Even the term "Javascript" is confusing and misleading, yet we use it.

Obviously, to use "Ajax" it doesn't need to be async, nor javascript, nor
xml. But in most cases, it probably is. So the name's not all that bad.

Perhaps an alternative definition of AJAX could be arrived at:
    Asynchronous Javascript Albatross eXchange?

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Matt Kruse
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com
http://www.AjaxToolbox.com
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:48 2005