Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Brief history

Ajax is only a name given to a set of tools that were previously existing.
The main part is XMLHttpRequest, a server-side object usable in JavaScript, that was implemented into Internet Explorer since the 4.0 version.
In Internet Explorer it is an ActiveX object that was first named XMLHTTP some times, before to be generalized on all browser under the name XMLHttpRequest, when the Ajax technology becomes commonly used.
The use of XMLHttpRequest in 2005 by Google, in Gmail and GoogleMaps has contributed to the success of this format. But this is the when the name Ajax was itself coined that the technology started to be so popular.

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