AJAX miracles

The raising roar inside the blogosphere is currently 'AJAX', the new fountain of youth, the revolution on the desktop. An innovative combination of the buzzwords du jour, shake shake shake. What is AJAX, except a successful football team and a recognized brand of cleaning products? You can find multiples definitions, but it boils down to a single thing: asynchronous download on the client side. JavaScript exists for years, and even it has opened an area of dynamism on the client side, it had one significant shortcoming for web applications: no standard way to get content from the server.