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May 20

In the beginning, web developers used static HTML to serve as the user interface for their application. This soon proved to be very tedious for development as the entire page had to be generated again with the exception of one particular area where an if condition generates a different output.

Then came Gmail – the most spectacular AJAX application that showed everyone what can be done if you use the XMLHTTPRequest object in the various browsers. This made it easier for both the web application developers and the users. Javascript frameworks were created and user interface libraries created to facilitate developing web applications based on this tool.

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