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AJAX slows applications down?

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:38 pm
by alex.barylski
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

Re: AJAX slows applications down?

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:26 am
by josh
Majority of developers aren't going to change their practices until they're forced to ( aka the existence of blind people using screenreaders is not affecting them significantly enough so they just don't care ).. not saying thats the right viewpoint to take but people are just lazy and ignorant, especially when something requires them to do more mental work..

People will not learn new things until they're first shown how it will help them ( or until a problem with their way of doing things gets big enough to affect their bottom line / job security )