Treffer: AJAX is no overnight success.

The article provides information on AJAX that has quickly become the banner buzzword of standards-based interactive applications for the Web. The term AJAX has originated from "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML." It combines behind-the-scenes server interactions with client-side user interface rendering. The result, which is clearly apparent in AJAX applications such as Google Inc.'s Google Maps, can be a Web application that looks and behaves much more like a conventional "thick client" application--one that responds dynamically to user actions, rather than waiting for an explicit "submit" command. Jesse James Garrett, cofounder of San Francisco, California-based Web consultancy Adaptive Path LLC, has stressed that the promise of AJAX is a potential rather than intrinsic improvement in the user's Web experience. Handheld devices may disappoint users who first encounter AJAX responsiveness on much faster desktops and laptops. Developers had argued that the generation beyond AJAX is already being defined by Microsoft Corp.'s .Net languages and frameworks.