[IxDA Discuss] ajax or not (for content)?

[David Malouf]

I think there is some balance here Vishal. I think your issues are
good, but I think you are weighting them a tad higher than I might. 

Or to put this a different way I think there is room for AJAX in a
content setting that protects some, most or all of your
functionality/usability concerns within a content setting.

And what's wrong w/ "hacks". I mean if they work from a user
perspective to achieve the functional goals of those users, is it
really a hack? I mean if it is ugly than it is probably a hack,
usually b/c it is last minute consideration instead of thoughtfully
designed into the application.

But to the point of your question, I disagree w/ the core notion that
richness is not required or desired within content based applications.

I do agree that an all rich site regardless of technology is probably
not only not necessary but will cause some of the issues you bring up.

The issue of performance is a tricky one that engineers seem to throw
out there at their convenience and I would ask for real performance
testing results for them to prove their point. I have equally seen
developers push back when richness was requested stating that it
reduces performance.

Last point -- "It Depends" -- the context of use is really
important when making these decisions about when to and not to use
richness (or any other design concept). I don't think we are at a
stage of understanding RIAs where we can create defacto standards of
practice around RIAs.


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