Understanding Asynchronous Communication

When you request a web page from the web server, the communication is synchronous to your browser. That means the browser waits until the HTML document is downloaded from the server before it begins rendering it and retrieving the additional resources necessary.

Asynchronous AJAX communication is different. When you send an AJAX request, control ...

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