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AJAX Misused

December 16, 2006 by carlosonweb 3 Comments

I was approached by a friend who was so proud to announce that they use a lot of AJAX in their projects and asked if I ever tried a single AJAX Code. “Do you know AJAX?”, he asked.

“Well, I don’t need AJAX in any of my applications.”, I said matter of factly, implicitly suggesting my little knowledge on the subject . “Tell me what do you use AJAX for?”

“It was really cool.”, he replied. “Go check out our company website. I made the whole thing in AJAX. Notice carefully how the content changes as you click on the sidebar navigation links. ONLY the content changes without reloading the entire page altogether.”

I don’t believe it was very cool, but a week after, I visited their website. The website was very cool indeed with all the nice graphics and the beautiful color combination. Except for one thing: The whole AJAX exhibition could be easily accomplished with the IFRAME Tag. 

I think it was a total waste of time using AJAX that way. Plus, it doesn’t benefit the website or improve the user-experience. This is one area where I see AJAX being misused by an enthusiatic web developer. I suspect my friend decided to use AJAX in their website just because he thinks it is cool and wants to try it out.  

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  1. donaldb says

    September 6, 2007 at 7:35 am

    alert(‘this is not ajax, jst a simple javascript’)

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  2. Carlos says

    September 6, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Hi Donald,

    Thanks for dropping by.

    And yes, it’s just JavaScript indeed. What surprises me is that some programmers would go the AJAX route (JS + Server-side script) what can be accomplished by a simple client-side script. And this topic by the way is based on a real website I’ve seen — a corporate website of a Web Development company.

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  3. ed says

    September 30, 2007 at 8:06 am

    Have you tried telling that to your friend? Haha.

    Reply

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