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Ajax (abbrev)

Expect to hear rather more of the acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML" in the future as new websites become available allowing users to take advantage of simple web applications within a browser. Personalisable homepages (such as NetVibes - see our review on page 28) are the first popular examples of websites using Ajax applications.

Ajax is not a development technology as such, but a collection of technologies that together act as a multi-featured environment. At a basic level, Ajax developers use HTML and XHTML pages with cascading style sheets (CSS) for style-up; JavaScript (a scripting language within web pages that should not be confused with the Java programming language) for dynamic interaction; and ...

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