| AJAX |
| AJAX
is a modern technique used in web development to create ighly efficient,
highly interactive web based user interfaces. AJAX takes us far
beyond the realms of what we have become used to when viewing a
web page - wait for a page to down load, view it's content, click
a link or a button and wait for the next page to download, repeat
the process.
With AJAX you no longer need to move from page to view more data.
An AJAX driven user interface can constantly be loading more data
in the background whilst the user explores the page. When they click
to take a certain action the data loaded in the background can be
instantly presented to the user with no need to refresh the whole
page. This has huge impacts in terms of usability and response times.
This concept of loading data in the background while the user uses
the web page is where AJAX gets it name - Asynchronous JavaScript
And XML. As you can now see AJAX is not a technology in its own
right, it is actually a technique that couples together existing
web development technologies in a very powerful way.
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