Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Getting Started with Ajax (07 Mar 2006) The start of 2005 saw the rise of a relatively new technology, dubbed “Ajax” by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. In a nutshell, it is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest() object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, HTML, and even text files. Ajax’s most appealing characteristic, however, is its “asynchronous” nature, which means it can do all of this without having to refresh the page. This allows you to update portions of a page based upon user events and provides one of the cornerstones of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) referred to in discussions of “Web 2.0.” Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/gettingstartedwithajax Read 172 more articles from A List Apart sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Interview-Based Tasks: Learning from Leonardo DiCaprio          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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