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| author | Agis Anastasopoulos <corestudiosinc@gmail.com> | 2012-10-21 17:15:44 +0300 |
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| committer | Agis Anastasopoulos <corestudiosinc@gmail.com> | 2012-10-21 17:15:44 +0300 |
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Explain where the acronym AJAX stands for & replace "JavaScript writer" with "JavaScript developer"
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diff --git a/guides/source/working_with_javascript.md b/guides/source/working_with_javascript.md index c0220017d3..ece3b7647c 100644 --- a/guides/source/working_with_javascript.md +++ b/guides/source/working_with_javascript.md @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ show you the results. This is called the 'Request-Response cycle'. JavaScript can also make requests to the server, and parse the response. It also has the ability to update information on the page. Combining these two -powers, a JavaScript writer can make a web page that can update just parts of +powers, a JavaScript developer can make a web page that can update just parts of itself, without needing to get the full page data from the server. This is a -powerful technique that we call AJAX. +powerful technique that we call AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Rails ships with CoffeeScript by default, and so the rest of the examples in this guide will be in CoffeeScript. All of these lessons, of course, apply |