Not Ajax-related controls in AjaxControlToolkit?

Question

Why AjaxControlToolkit contains controls like DropShadow that are not related to Ajax really? Such controls just make use of JavaScript and does not send or receive any data to/from server?

Answer 1

First, you are correct: they contain javascript, not "real" AJAX.

But "AJAX" is now often used to mean "anything that uses javascript/dhtml to make a page more responsive and avoid postbacks", not just "Asynchronous Javascript And Xml" (the original definition).