AJAX Tutorial Introduction

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AJAX Tutorial
Introduction
This tutorial assumes that you have the basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and the basis of the client-server
model. That is all you need to start building basic AJAX applications.
What is AJAX?
Just for your information, AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. But don’t pay much attention to the
name; it is unfortunately chosen. What you need to know is that AJAX is not a new technology, it is a combination
of existing technologies like HTML, JavaScript, DHTML and DOM. Really it’s just an innovative approach to
combine these technologies to suit the needs of the always developing web applications.
What can AJAX do for you?
AJAX can make your webapps more user friendly. Perhaps the easiest illustration is when a user is filling some king
of form as a part of your webapp and based on the partial user input you can perform a database check
transparently to the user while he is still busy with filling the rest of the form. As a result of that asynchronous
request you can assist the user with various information(like username is taken, auto fill the rest of the form.)
making the GUI of the…