Filed under: Web Technologies — Scott @ 2:50 pm
AJAX… pointless… most web apps using it don’t need it. Its just the latest bit of technology porn for developers to masturbate to. Honestly are all those libraries needed to validate some forms? To make some single page desktop like app? The way I see it being used most of the time AJAX is crippling the site.
How is a mobile browser going to deal with it? How is a blind user going to use it? How are the people that are still on dial up going to use it?
Their not…. their going to use the Craigslist-like sites.
Simple to the point web sites will always win.
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Man i hate to kick your bubble, since in most cases I think your right. yet none the less I have to.
Ajax used right adds great benefit to the user, dial-up, blind, or mobile. Adding some ajax just to be ‘in’ is of course a dumb move, but I have seen audio integrated ajax fill in search, built sites using ajax to enhance mobile functions and proper page cache/call setup make load time faster.
Still….. most of the time just like with java and gif animation when it became ‘geek sheek’ ajax is abused and wasted.