AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML CSS - Cascading Style Sheets DOM - Document Object Model HTML - Hypertext Markup Language JavaScript XML - Extensible Markup Language SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics XUL - XML User Interface Language XBL - Extensible
[rest] the term REpresentational State Transfer (REST) originates from the seminal work of roy t. fielding in retrospectively defining the core architectural principles of the world wide web.
John Udell (infoworld) I never heard the phrase "REST microkernel" before, but I had an immediate expectation of what that would mean. An hour's experimentation with the system met that expectation. Wildly interesting stuff.