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ajax: bah, humbug
Sep. 23rd, 2010 11:52 amI put 'AJAX' on my resume skills list, but I kinda hope it never becomes a major part of my job.
AJAX is a web technology that allows for server calls that make dynamic changes to the HTML currently displayed rather than reloading the page. It's kind of a neat effect -- it makes the page's operation look seamless. Websites seem to rely on it more and more; google and Facebook now seem to use it almost exclusively to display new information.
The problem with it is that it tends to bug out before too long, forcing you to manually refresh anyway or even close the tab and reload the page altogether. I don't know much about the guts of browser design but if I had to guess I'd suspect that AJAX calls just pile up uncleared in the cache, filling it with so much clutter it bogs down and eventually stops working. (Maybe this is just a Firefox issue, I don't really spend much time on IE.)
I've gotten to the point where honestly, most of the time I'd rather just see the page reload.
AJAX is a web technology that allows for server calls that make dynamic changes to the HTML currently displayed rather than reloading the page. It's kind of a neat effect -- it makes the page's operation look seamless. Websites seem to rely on it more and more; google and Facebook now seem to use it almost exclusively to display new information.
The problem with it is that it tends to bug out before too long, forcing you to manually refresh anyway or even close the tab and reload the page altogether. I don't know much about the guts of browser design but if I had to guess I'd suspect that AJAX calls just pile up uncleared in the cache, filling it with so much clutter it bogs down and eventually stops working. (Maybe this is just a Firefox issue, I don't really spend much time on IE.)
I've gotten to the point where honestly, most of the time I'd rather just see the page reload.
