What I'm doing on my latest site (not public yet), is using ajax for all the form submissions and login stuff etc.. I think it looks really cool, for example, when you add a comment (or review, or whatever the case may be), and it appears immediately without having to reload the page.
For that reason ajax can make it easier on bandwidth. For example lets say you have a video portal, like youtube. If everyone who posts a comment has the page reloaded (like a standard form would do), that movie might get loaded again depending on if the client cached it or not, which you can't depend on. That's bad for bandwidth.
So I like using ajax to replace Post and Get situations that would annoy the user. However I do agree with the above poster who said that ajax can get kind of annoying if you use it for too many effects.
Also, another kind of cool idea is to use ajax when the user has javascript, but when they don't, to just use Post or Get. That way your ajax solution won't get in the way of those who don't have javascript.
At 10/16/09 07:23 PM, FallingTears wrote:
Anyone else have anything to say about AJAX?