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Whole Page Reload - JS, DOM, XML, CSS

Solutions to the 'whole page reload' have already been around for a while (99 at least, but not universally) and are already being popularized by such services as GMail and Google Maps. Javascript (or more correctly ECMA Script) along with XML, the Document Object Model and CSS allow portions of a page to be updated while data is pulled from a server in the background. Following the computer industries need to name things, this 'new' movement is being dubbed AJAX.

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