At that time both JavaScript and XML had already been developed, but Ajax had still not yet been coined and the XMLHttpRequest object had only been recently introduced on Internet Explorer 5 as an ActiveX object.
באותו זמן JavaScript ו־XML כבר פותחו, אבל המושג Ajax טרם הוטבע, והאובייקט XMLHttpRequest הוצג רק לאחרונה בדפדפן Internet Explorer 5, כאובייקט ActiveX.