we know about the lim itations of the Web, and begin to imagine a w ider, richel range of possibilities It's going to be fun Ajax Q&A March 13, 2005: Since we first published Jesse's essay we've received an enormous amount of correspondence from readers with questions about ajax In this Q&A, Jesse responds to some of the most common queries. Q. Did Adaptive Path invent Ajax? Did Google? Did Adaptive Path help build Googles Ajax applications? A. Neither Adaptive Path nor google invented Ajax Googles recent products are simply the highest-prof ile examples of Ajax applications. Adaptive Path was not involved in the development of Google's Ajax applications but we have been doing Ajax work for some of our other clients Q. Is Adaptive Path selling ajax components or trademarking the name? Where can i download it? A. Ajax isnt something you can dow load It's an approach -a way of thinking about the architecture of web applications using certain technologies. Neither the ajax name nor the approach are proprietary to Adaptive path Q. Is Ajax just another name for XmlhTtpreqUesT? A. No. XmlhTtpreqUesT is only part of the Ajax equation XmlHttpreQuesT is the technical component that makes the asynchronous server communication possible: Ajax is our name for the overall approach described in the article which relies not only on XmlhTtpreQuesT, but on csS, Dom, and other Q. Why did you feel the need to give this a name? A. I needed something shorter than Asynchronous Javascript+ css+dom+ XmlhTtpreQuesT to use when discussing this approach with clientswe know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities. It’s going to be fun. Ajax Q&A March 13, 2005: Since we first published Jesse’s essay, we’ve received an enormous amount of correspondence f rom readers with questions about Ajax. In this Q&A, Jesse responds to some of the most common queries. Q. Did Adaptive Path invent Ajax? Did Google? Did Adaptive Path help build Google’s Ajax applications? A. Neither Adaptive Path nor Google invented Ajax. Google’s recent products are simply the highest-profile examples of Ajax applications. Adaptive Path was not involved in the development of Google’s Ajax applications, but we have been doing Ajax work for some of our other clients. Q. Is Adaptive Path selling Ajax components or trademarking the name? Where can I download it? A. Ajax isn’t something you can download. It’s an approach — a way of thinking about the architecture of web applications using certain technologies. Neither the Ajax name nor the approach are proprietary to Adaptive Path. Q. Is Ajax just another name for XMLHttpRequest? A. No. XMLHttpRequest is only part of the Ajax equation. XMLHttpRequest is the technical component that makes the asynchronous server communication possible; Ajax is our name for the overall approach described in the article, which relies not only on XMLHttpRequest, but on CSS, DOM, and other technologies. Q. Why did you feel the need to give this a name? A. I needed something shorter than “Asynchronous JavaScript+CSS+DOM+XMLHttpRequest” to use when discussing this approach with clients