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    <p>The first use of the term in public was by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_Garrett" title="Jesse James Garrett">Jesse James Garrett</a> in February 2005. Garrett thought of the term when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to a client.</p>
    <p>Although the term <i>Ajax</i> was coined in 2005, most of the technologies that enable Ajax started a decade earlier with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>'s initiatives in developing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Scripting" title="Remote Scripting">Remote Scripting</a>. Techniques for the asynchronous loading of content on an existing Web page without requiring a full reload date back as far as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFrame" title="IFrame">IFRAME</a> element type (introduced in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer" title="Internet Explorer">Internet Explorer</a> 3 in 1996) and the LAYER element type (introduced in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape" title="Netscape">Netscape</a> 4 in 1997, abandoned during early development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla" title="Mozilla">Mozilla</a>). Both element types had a <code>src</code> attribute that could take any external <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</a>, and by loading a page containing JavaScript that manipulated the parent page, Ajax-like effects could be attained. This set of client-side technologies was usually grouped together under the generic term of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHTML" title="DHTML">DHTML</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia" title="Macromedia">Macromedia</a>'s Flash could also, from version 4, load <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values" title="Comma-separated values">CSV</a> files from a remote server without requiring a browser being refreshed.</p>
    <p>Source: <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia.org</a></p>
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