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December 05, 2005

Ajax and Frames - Can you spot the difference?

This latest Alertbox article "Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the time)" is quite predictable, but I thought that it looked a bit familiar.

It looks remarkably similar to a similar Alertbox article published in 1996 called "Why Frames Suck".

Ajax Sucks

Perhaps there really is "nothing new under the sun".

December 5, 2005 in Usability | Permalink

Comments

Ooooh! This article is THAT old ? now i understand why coprnerstown problem is hard using of BACK button.

Now, when even Microsoft had grown to get the idea of tabbed browsing, BACK button has almost no sense. I use it 2-3 times per week, if not less.

2web-master: and "xmpp:arioch@jabber.ru" is NOT "Invalid URL"

Posted by: Arioch | 30 Dec 2005 08:23:38

Is that MSIE 5 on the screenshots?

Posted by: Michal | 13 Dec 2005 10:12:44

At the bottom of the page on http://www.usabilityviews.com/ajaxsucks.html it says it's a spoof article

Posted by: Rohan | 7 Dec 2005 18:43:37

From the above link (ajaxian.com):
"Between page refreshes, states usually aren't important enough to warrant a unique URL anyway."
This is exactly what I thought. Who'd want to bookmark a half-filled form? As far as I understand, Ajax is primarily used for that sort of thing... If you use Ajax for site navigation, then you're surely doomed, but for enhanced form filling there should be no problem. Since URL-incompatibility is the only fundamental problem Nielsen focuses on, I think there just might be room for Ajax in the future.

Posted by: Walter Stryder | 7 Dec 2005 10:03:28

Hey, those screenshots look remarkably similar to IE.
Surely you don't seriously use IE as your main browser... do you?
Perhaps there really is nothing under the hood...

Posted by: n3ldan | 6 Dec 2005 23:22:10

Where did you get the figure for "Ajax Compatible Browsers: 78%"? My own research let me to believe the number was really more like 98%, not accounting for users who had disabled ActiveX in IE or Javascript in other browsers.

Posted by: Chris Griego | 6 Dec 2005 22:28:56

Hehe ..

http://ajaxian.com/archives/2005/12/jakob_nielsen_w.html

Posted by: Andri | 6 Dec 2005 18:13:04