February 23, 2006
AJAX vs TAXI vs DHTML vs Active HTML
Scott has a pretty nifty post on the name of AJAX:
Scott’s "SiteExperts" Place: Talking about "The Real AJAX Upside"
Naming was never my specialty. Very little known tidbit. When I wrote the first DHTML draft specification, I named it “Active HTML” (I will leave it up to you to figure out why this is a bad name back in 1997). How did it change to “Dynamic” - from looking up Active in a thesaurus.
However, Dynamic HTML as a name served its purpose well in the late 90’s. I do believe remarketing the existing technology as Ajax was a necessity for the community/ industry. Can you imagine all the new startups going for VC capital having to explain their cool new web innovations is based on 8 year old technology :-)?
Hah.
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