1st
August
2005
Ajax Mistakes
“Ajax is an awesome technology that is driving a new generation of web apps, from maps.google.com to colr.org to backpackit.com. But Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems. I’ve compiled a list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make. Javascript itself is a dangerous UI technology, but I’ve tried to keep the list to problems particular to Ajax development…”