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Term for a popular web programming paradigm, whereby Javascript is used to load data Asynchronously (that is, in the "background" while an existing page stays loaded). The word refers to "Asynchronous Javascript + XML". Though XML is the traditional response format, other data serialisation techniques are supported, including "lightweight" formats like JSON. The original technique was based on a Microsoft browser addition, the XMLHttpRequest object, that allowed Internet Explorer to load an XML document using HTTP directly from javascript.

Disambiguation: Ajax is also a popular Dutch football team, the brand name of devices used by Wile E. Coyote and a cleaning product.

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	Term for a popular web programming paradigm, whereby [[Javascript]] is used to load data Asynchronously (that is, in the "background" while an existing page stays loaded). The word refers to "Asynchronous Javascript + XML". Though [[XML]] is the traditional response format, other [[data serialisation]] techniques are supported, including "lightweight" formats like [[JSON]]. The original technique was based on a Microsoft browser addition, the XMLHttpRequest object, that allowed Internet Explorer to load an XML document using HTTP directly from javascript.		Term for a popular web programming paradigm, whereby [[Javascript]] is used to load data Asynchronously (that is, in the "background" while an existing page stays loaded). The word refers to "Asynchronous Javascript + XML". Though [[XML]] is the traditional response format, other [[data serialisation]] techniques are supported, including "lightweight" formats like [[JSON]]. The original technique was based on a Microsoft browser addition, the XMLHttpRequest object, that allowed Internet Explorer to load an XML document using HTTP directly from javascript.

	Disambiguation: also a popular Dutch football team.		Disambiguation: Ajax is also a [http://ajax.nl popular Dutch football team], the brand name of devices used by [[wikipedia:Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner\|Wile E. Coyote]] and a cleaning product.