Beberapa waktu ini, di suatu tempat ada perdebatan menarik sual definisi AJAX. Ga puas dengan perdebatan tersebut, maka iseng saya lemparkan pertanyaan ke milis resmi PHP.

Dear All,
We all knew that AJAX is an achronym of Asynchronous Javascript And XML.
When I use another data format like YAML or CSV, will it still be called as AJAX?
Or just “yet another asynchronous method”?

Kemudian muncul beberapa jawaban sebagai berikut:

Jay Blanchard (jblanchard@p***et.com):
AJAX makes a good catch-all term since the API is called XMLHttpRequest
and the API can be used with all sorts of text data. The asynchronous
method is still JavaScript (or is it ECMAScript?). Its original intent
was XML data (just text with mark-up). Besides, AJAP (Asynchronous
JavaScript and PHP) just doesn’t sound right somehow.

AJAH – and HTML
AJAA – and ASP
AJA.N – and .NET
AJAC – and CSV
AJAT – and TXT
AJACF – and Cold Fusion
AJAPL – and PERL

And so on…..

Satyam (Satyam@s***am.com.ar) :
Just let the X stand for ‘unknown’.

Robert Cummings (robert@int***inn.com) :
Yeah, all of the above fall under the AJAX umbrella and are commonly
just referred to as AJAX.

Cheers,
Rob.

Well, tentunya pendapat di atas bukan merupakan suatu vonis tentang apa itu AJAX, saya hanya ingin berbagi saja.

Maaf, alamat email sengaja saya samarkan biar mereka ga keserang sepam he.he.