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Opera takes the lead with AJAX support among browsers: More efficient streaming
Published September 2nd, 2006 in All Categories, Opera
On the official Opera Web Applications blog, Arve Bersvendsen wrote about a cool new AJAX 
feature that was added to Opera 9.
AJAX, which is a programming model for creating interactive web applications, has been made popular recently with Google for Gmail and Google Suggest. Lately it has been the big buzzword on the web for countless other sites too.
Here is just a brief explanation of this new AJAX feature, without getting too technical.
From the blog post: With the traditional AJAX implementation, the browser continually polls the server, sending requests to the server, asking to get data back, making new HTTP requests for every single poll, putting more strain on the server than needed. Opera takes the lead with AJAX support among browsers: More efficient streaming ยป Opera Watch
