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		est on Sept 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Word About CSS4 Oh god how does Javascript become AJAX? AJAX is largely part of DOM, it's just some http callbacks your browser provide to Javascript.

kevinconroy on Sept 7, 2012 | [–]

I'm not saying that I think that those are the technically accurate terms (they're not). But that's what they're called. It's what sells books and causes articles to trend.

alexchamberlain on Sept 5, 2012 | [–]

Also, wasn't DHTML just HTML+JS?

andybak on Sept 5, 2012 | [–]

DHTML was just a way to sell books with 'DHTML' in the title.

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