[svas]

Isn't this just a trailing GET? This technique has been around since the 90's and has been used in lots of applications.

The comparison to AJAX in 2005 is a little odd for me, as this is already a pretty mature technique. AJAX in 2005 was pretty novel because the prior (to Google, and others) use-case was for early Microsoft web apps tied heavily to IE.

[jblow]

If you remove the constraint "in a web browser" then there is nothing here at all to talk about. Making an acronym for stuff people have been doing routinely since the 1970s is kind of weird. This is the problem with web programmers.