NYCPHP Meetup

[David Mintz]

You guys gotta take a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax and
see just how heavily overloaded "Ajax" is. It looks like the "Greek hero
and legendary king of Salamis who plays an important role in Homer's
Iliad"  might have come before the HttpRequest thing.

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Chris Shiflett wrote:

> csnyder wrote:
> > > It doesn't stand for anything. In fact, Ajax isn't an acronym.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Really? It did when it was coined by Garrett last year... dang,
> > that was just last year people!
>
> Ajax wasn't an acronym last year either:
>
> http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
>
> See if you can find "acronym" or "AJAX" mentioned anywhere.

---
David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/

En Nueva York el tránsito de la belleza a la desolación sucede
siempre expeditivamente, como si el principio universal
de máxima eficiencia hubiera aconsejado la supresión de
gradaciones intermedias.

  -- Antonio Muñoz Molina, Ventanas de Manhattan