JavaScript Ajax

Question 1

What is AJAX?

Answer 1

way to grab info from a server w/o having reload the page.

Question 2

What does the AJAX acronym stand for?

Answer 2

Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

Question 3

Which object is built into the browser for making HTTP requests in JavaScript?

Answer 3

XMLHttpRequest

Question 4

What event is fired by XMLHttpRequest objects when they are finished loading the data from the server?

Answer 4

‘load’

Question 5

Bonus Question: An XMLHttpRequest object has an addEventListener() method just like DOM elements. How is it possible that they both share this functionality?

Answer 5

prototype inheritance.