Ajax for the Developers

[Paul Boddie]

SABIN wrote:
> The trendy XML HTTP Request has really struck the way developers had adopted
> with the user interfaces. But the major issuse are yet to be solved..
>
> 1. Changing state with links (GET requests)
> 2.Asynchronously performing batch operations
> 3.Breaking the back button
>
> Will these get solved.

It depends. Issue 3 presumably describes the way the back button
doesn't "undo" your last interaction but instead often takes you off
the page and back to what you were viewing before. Whether the back
button was "broken" before, for things like form-based applications, is
also an open issue.

I think you need to explain issue 2 in more detail for me (at least) to
understand what you're suggesting. As for issue 1, where your objection
presumably lies in the need to handle whole page updates in an
application as well as what I call "in-page updates" (thus ignoring the
Web 2.0 blogging community's tendency to overhype straightforward
concepts using catchy but obscure and inaccurate acronyms), strategies
certainly do exist to combine the two approaches without necessarily
ruining standard Web accessibility. There does appear to be a certain
Web 2.0 "scene" which seems hell bent on reinventing "old school
client/server" over HTTP; I intend to pay as little attention to such
endeavours as my RSS feed reader will allow.

Paul