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Agreed and guess who gave the world Ajax?

Yes that's right. It's MS. One of the few things that they didn't manage to copy but in fact used their own brains. It was Jesse James Garret who coined the moniker Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML but its based on a technology Microsoft created back in the late 90's.

Although the term "Ajax" was coined in 2005, most histories of the technologies that enable Ajax start a decade earlier with Microsoft's initiatives in developing Remote Scripting. Techniques for the asynchronous loading of content on an existing Web page without requiring a full reload date back as far as the IFRAME element type (introduced in Internet Explorer 3 in 1996) and the LAYER element type (introduced in Netscape 4 in 1997, abandoned during early development of Mozilla). Both element types had a src attribute that could take any external URL, and by loading a page containing JavaScript that manipulated the parent page, Ajax-like effects could be attained. This set of client-side technologies was usually grouped together under the generic term of DHTML. Macromedia's Flash could also, from version 4, load XML and CSV files from a remote server without requiring a browser refresh.

Microsoft's Remote Scripting (or MSRS, introduced in 1998) acted as a more elegant replacement for these techniques, with data being pulled in by a Java applet with which the client side could communicate using JavaScript. This technique worked on both Internet Explorer version 4 and Netscape Navigator version 4 onwards. Microsoft then created the XMLHttpRequest object in Internet Explorer version 5 and first took advantage of these techniques using XMLHttpRequest in Outlook Web Access supplied with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 release.

While JJG has the credit for the funky name, many of us were creating "Ajax" applications for many years before.

And you are absolutely correct. You can't "give away Ajax". I would imagine who is so proud of his "CCP" would not be at least in some way informed about these things. I don't have a "CCP", I have a degree in computer science from a University (not community college). I hate it when people spread misinformation to the uninformed.

Posted by: the_seb   Posted on: 09/12/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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