Welcome to your first lesson in Web Speak 101!

Your first vocabulary word is:

• AJAX

Ajax is more than an all purpose kitchen cleanser with bleach.

In web speak, AJAX is an abbreviation for Asynchronous Javascript and XML.

Whew.

To break it down, AJAX is a web development technique that allows new information to be pulled into a web page you’re viewing without the page actually refreshing.  Everything happens in the background, allowing you to see new information, while remaining on the same page.

You’ve probably seen AJAX in action many times. A common example is Google Maps.  When you zoom in and out on the map, the different views you see are all loaded via AJAX.

Hungry for more examples? Click here to see applications of AJAX on sites you probably use every day.

And stay tuned for more web speak lessons!

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