On 2/21/07, Andy Tyrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, actually, once you go AJAX, you kinda want it > > everywhere. It truly > > is a different way of doing stuff than the old "static" way. > > What's that > > quote... we're just now getting back to where we were 10 years ago, UI > > wise.... something like that. > > Well, I really disagree with that statement. I don't want it "everywhere" > -- just where it makes sense to me and fits the business model. To use > something "just because you can" isn't really a reason to.
I was referring to the fact that, usually, when you're just updating a DIV or two -which is the main way of communicating "simi-real-time" with your user when doing "AJAX"- you generally do things with the "onclick" of an "a href" type tag. Totally different behavior than your default "pre web 2.0" type stuff. =] Validating a form after it's been submitted isn't an "old, static way". Users expect certain behaviors of HTML forms, and overuse of AJAX or any > other "in your face" methods that can be applied to "real-time" validation > (read: interruption to the user) are unexpected behaviors and will more > than > likely make the user go somewhere else. This is all relative to the > application, who is using it and what it does, of course, but for the > general audience of internet users the last thing you want to do is turn > their world upside down with the unexpected when they are trying to > perform > a simple action they've performed a thousand times before. All of the above assumes some sort of prior expectation- and believe it or not, /there are better ways/. I'm not just a coder, I'm a user. :] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
