Managing Ajax Across the User Session
Published May 21st, 2008 Under User Interface | Leave a Comment
Ajax makes it possible to communicate to the server out of band, giving rise to a number of novel interaction patterns, such as automatic updating of data, type-ahead suggestions and inline editing of data. While these are all useful idioms as far as the end-user is concerned, there is a danger that moderately complex Ajax apps will end up generating a significant volume of relatively trivial HTTP calls. This increases the load on both the sever and the network. During this session, Dave showed how to address these issues.