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Cutting Edge: Perspectives on ASP.NET AJAX : Dino Esposito
Unless you've spent the past 12 months disconnected from the Net-perhaps vacationing on a remote tropical island or participating in a reality game show-you should know a few things about AJAX. But I'll do a quick refresher just in case.
First, there's the acronym-it stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Then there is its purpose: a true breakthrough, AJAX makes possible solutions that would be otherwise impossible or just impractical to obtain. And finally, you should understand what AJAX is made up of. It's not a technology, per se. Instead, it is a blanket term to indicate rich browser applications built using powerful combinations of client-side Web technologies that have been around for years, such as JavaScript, cascading style sheets (CSS), DHTML, and XMLHttpRequest....
