All hail Ajax and Jesse James Garrett whose paper named it, laid it out, and kicked off the current excitement about it. As Jesse and Wikipedia acknowledge, as with most important ideas, it can be traced back to lots of beginnings.

The other day, one of those beginnings occurred to me. Jeez, I thought, this sounds like something Tim Bray was talking about about five years ago. He called it Taxi, and I thought I’d written it up in my newsletter, although now I can’t find it. But Tim did write about Taxi at xml.org in March of 2001. So, a tip of the hat to Tim… [Tags: ajax TimBray JesseJamesGarrett]

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