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AJAX created new vibes in web developer community. Some webmasters/developers are not very much aware about it and its working. So here is some food for those fellows. Hope it will help.

What is AJAX?

First of all let me tell you that AJAX is not a new programming language. It’s a new simple technology for creating interactive web pages. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

What it does exactly?

AJAX is a web development technique for making interactive web pages. This technique silently updates a webpage with the new data from server. This all happens in background. This means the page displays the new data from server without refresh. Ajax uses the Java Script to send and receive data between web browser and web server. AJAX makes asynchronous requests for data transfer. This allows us to update the portion of page instead of whole page.

What do you need to do to learn it?

Good news is if you are a web developer then you don’t need to learn any new thing. Most of the web developers are already using these technologies for several years.

AJAX uses the following Open standards

    * XML
    * JavaScript
    * HTML
    * CSS

XML is used for retrieving the data from server. Though, we can get the data in simple plain text format also.

JavaScript is used for updating the web page when the data is returned from the server.

HTML and CSS is used for creating a webpage and applying the styles respectively.