Although the acronym AJAX is fairly straightforward, derived from Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, it’s significant because it captures a paradigm shift in the delivery of Web page content. The ...

Examples of this approach using Ajax are Google Maps and Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site, which are written using a home brew of JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, and XML. Ajax stands for "Asynchronous ...

Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks.