Ajax Mistakes

After all the hype around Ajax, here are the first warning signs.

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.

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Actually not the newest article on the subject, but a nice list of what you should avoid when designing under this new paradigm. I especially liked the following points. You shall not:

  • Break the back button
  • Send sensitive information in the clear
  • Change the state with links (use buttons)
  • Make site “un-bookmarkable”
  • Block spidering

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