"New wine in old bottle" - AJAX

Just remembered Steven Covey ' famous quote "New wine Old bottle" when I saw this posting
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php about AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) -

We have been using Asynchronous Javascript with XMLHttp for almost 4 years now to dynamically updates some part of the browser without refreshing the whole screen but never thought of coined a name for this technique, But since Gooogle started using in Gmail and Google Maps, it become a buzzword in town. I guess you have to be famous to coin a pharse :)


Javascript/XML HTTP technique been existed since IE4 but I guess people were afraid of using it for couple of reasons,

1) Security - Since this could be potentially be a security bug (some hacker could gain control of your html page and then submit content to their server)

2) Not compatible with other browsers. The only other browser at time in radar was "Netscape" which needless to say didn't support such things. But with FireFox and new Mozilla browsers "AJAX" is getting the momentum