Published on 2005-11-29 04:29:59
AJAX ? AHAH ! sounds funny, but AHAH now stands for Asychronous HTML and HTTP, a technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript, involving usage of XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS. Nothing new until now, except that inspite of retreiving XML, AHAH stands for retreiving (X)HTML.
AHAH is intended to be a much simpler way to do web development than AJAX : "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML." Strictly speaking, AHAH can be considered a subset of AJAX, since (X)HTML is just a special kind of XML.
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