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Ajax Behaving Badly and Other Misconceptions
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04/21/2006, By Ajax Impact News
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Over his blog, Dion Hinchcliffe has written nice article etitled "Ajax Behaving Badly and Other Misconceptions". He writes that " An interesting discussion emerged today about whether Ajax, and other Rich Internet Application Application (RIA) technologies like Flash and Flex, will end up overloading Web infrastructures in the future. Tim Bray has a very common sense explanation of the issues in his The Cost of Ajax piece today, the issue over which James Governer originally pointed to."
The problem is that things like Ajax are enormously powerful techniques that can trigger lots and lots of work on far-away computers very quickly, all in the background using the potent XmlHttpRequest(). In fact, in a humorous piece a while back (Five Earth-Shattering Things You Should Know About Ajax), I discuss how a simple, poorly conceived Ajax program could easily bring the biggest, brawniest server in a data center to its very knees. And unfortunately, that's inevitably what's going to happen in some cases.
I see a lot of the RIA tools, particularly around Flash, being given to Web page designers who are brilliant artists but quite inexperienced Web architects. And I'm just starting to see the same thing with Ajax development tools.
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