What is Ajax?

The history of web-based appliction:

1. JavaScript, originally named LiveScript, was created by Brendan Eich of Netscape (around 1995)
2. Frames, HTML 4.0
3. The hidden frame technique
4. Dynamic HTML and  the DOM, CSS,DHTML, JavaScript
5. Combining DHTML with the hidden frame technique
6. Iframes, it can be placed everywhere and can be created dynamically.
7. XMLHttp, this tool came in the form of an Active X object called XMLHttp; MSXML, and then the ad hoc http rquest can be controlled from JavaScript, (around 2001)
8. Ajax, Garrett, (around 2005), Ajax engine
   

Technologies behind Ajax:


Html/XHTML: Primary content representation languages
CSS: Provides stylistic fomatting to XHTML
DOM: Dynamic updating of a loaded page
XML: Data exchange format
XSLT: Transforms XML into XHTML (tyled by CSS)
XMLHttp:Primary communication broker
JavaScript: Scripting language used to program an Ajax engine.

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