I decided to start a new series to present AJAX from another point of view which is providing definitions, guidelines of the AJAX components,

First we will start this entry with what is AJAX?
AJAX is shorthand of "Asynchronous JavaScript and xml" from this definition we start to know that AJAX is not a new technology but set of already known technologies and tools that provide us with a new web user experience.

from the above we could start to understand :-

1- AJAX is a technique not a technology.
2- You should know about JavaScript, XML, CSS and also browser compatibility issues.

also to note here AJAX is not a new technique that we knew about today, it was already existing over the internet but we didn't give any focus on it.

somebody would start to say will AJAX going to replace Flash?, no it will not the one that will do so is WPF\E which already has full integration to ASP.NET AJAX

anyway this is enough for now see you in the coming entry....

next entry will be focusing on the challenges we will face when implementing AJAX over the internet..
Enjoy ;)