Ajax, "Chubby" or Smart Clients?:

"Ajax is far from innovative. Developers know Ajax as remote scripting. From a thorough summary of different remote scripting techniques and technologies read my post on how to create a Google Suggest like feature with ASP.NET 2.0. This post speaks of a concept called ‘Chubby Clients’, this is a term I came up with to describe ‘Ajax’ applications. "

(Via Anders Norås' blog.)