A is for Ajax

This will be the first in a series of Web 2.0 Alphabet posts. Shirley Duglin Kennedy - librarian at the MacDill Air Force Base - has published these in two consecutive issues of Information Today magazine. They will be re-posted here, one letter each week.

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a combination of technologies that powers many interactive Web 2.0 applications. It's also a cleanser, but it's always more rewarding to surf the Web than to scrub sinks, right?

From Wikipedia: A primary characteristic (of Ajax) is the increased responsiveness and interactiveness of web pages achieved by exchanging small amounts of data with the server "behind the scenes" so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user performs an action. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.

What do you think "B" could be for...you'll have to wait until next Friday.

Web 2.0 Alpbahet:Part 1 (letters A - M) were originally published in Information Today 24.9 (Oct 2007): p.17(2).