AJAX slows applications down?
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:38 pm
Often when I use Facebook or some web application I've download for trial many of the operations seem to take for ever to complete and actually result in a poorer quality user experience.
Is it just me or has AJAX starting to get abused as a technology? I know it's the cool thing to do and to save a bit of bandwidth but honestly I think these "cool" features cause me more headaches then their worth.
About the only time I like AJAX is when a control populates itself automagically...
When AJAX <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> me off and I disable JavaScript...the entire applicaiton usually stops working or at least 50% of the funcitonality is no longer available...I guess accessibility is taking a back seat? Sadly I was all about JS before AJAX was popularized...I sed an IFRAME technqiue that I thought I discovered until I found out about an RPC JS library. Then the fad kind of passed and now I find myself thinking...maybe I should jump on the band wagon again...
What says you?
Cheers,
Alex
Is it just me or has AJAX starting to get abused as a technology? I know it's the cool thing to do and to save a bit of bandwidth but honestly I think these "cool" features cause me more headaches then their worth.
About the only time I like AJAX is when a control populates itself automagically...
When AJAX <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> me off and I disable JavaScript...the entire applicaiton usually stops working or at least 50% of the funcitonality is no longer available...I guess accessibility is taking a back seat? Sadly I was all about JS before AJAX was popularized...I sed an IFRAME technqiue that I thought I discovered until I found out about an RPC JS library. Then the fad kind of passed and now I find myself thinking...maybe I should jump on the band wagon again...
What says you?
Cheers,
Alex