the x in ajax
As everyone knows, the X in AJAX stands for XMLHTTPRequest
, which makes the entire acronym/abbreviation/whatever Asynchronous Javascript And eXtensible Markup Language HyperText Transfer Protocol Request, which is a mouthful and a half.
As everyone also knows, virtually no-one actually uses XML while coding AJAX applications.
I’d like to recommend that the name be changed so it stands for Asynchronous Javascript And eXternal data, which is a bit more apt.
If you’re going to be pedantic – MS implementation of ECMAscript is properly named Jscript; and should the J in AJAX not be an E for ECMAscript? 🙂
absolutely right. that’s hard to pronounce, though – “AEAX”
Actually, Netscape and Sun created Javscript (called Mocha, then called Livescript then Javscript). JScript is Microsofts equivalent version of it, while ECMAScript is the implementation standard.
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript