Alex Bosworth lists his ten top AJAX mistakes. I couldn’t agree more. There are too many choices in AJAX and DHTML that work great in principle, but not in practice. The big challange, and it’s not an easy one, is how not to repeat any of them.
The previous post left all of my two readers wondering what AJAX is. Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path sums it up well in this post. Which incidentally is one of the top links on del.icio.us, at least according to populicio.us. And subtly, I’ve just linked tagging with AJAX.
Flickr switches from Flash to DHTML
Not exactly a newsbite that will change your day, but Flickr has just switched from using Flash to DHTML/AJAX on some of their pages. And they got to talk about it during the AJAX summitt. For those of you out of the loop, AJAX is Web Buzzword of The Month(tm).
Personally, I didn’t like how they used Flash on their site, and I welcome the improvement. But it’s interesting to note how useability improvements (Flickr, Google Maps) are linked to cool new geekery tech, afterall asynchronous JavaScript is not exactly the topic of conversation in most circles. Sometimes technology is more than just technology.
I promise a labnote about AJAX sometime in the future, but right now I’m trying out geocoding.
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