AJAX Design Strategies

Web applications have entered a new era driven by web site goals such as fast response to user actions and user collaboration in creating and sharing web site content. The popular term attributed to these highly responsive and often collaborative sites is Web 2.0. Some prime examples of Web 2.0 are web sites such as Google Maps and Flickr. This paper is about the primary technique in use for making Web 2.0 sites highly responsive: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX).