Comments on: As predicted - Jakob says Ajax sucks http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2005/as-predicted-jakob-says-ajax-sucks Information architecture, interaction design and much more Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: robert http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2005/as-predicted-jakob-says-ajax-sucks#comment-543 robert Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:39:42 +0000 http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2005/as-predicted-jakob-says-ajax-sucks#comment-543 Not sure there is a "fell for it". It may be a "spoof", but the content is a true as the original. Ajax does suck (almost all of the time). It is the difference between books and tv for many people - with a book I can turn to any page I like, and I don't have to keep seeing the annoying popup ads on the "free" tv program (which most people pay $50 a month for...) I argue that eBay and Google are the prime examples of perfect sites that use "minimal" if any ajax. AJAX and similar technologies are crutches for poor UI designers. Understand what the user wants to do, and it is easy to design a far more usable interface with a simple (non AJAX) UI. Real internet you can bookmark, everything else is just a toy... Maybe you can spend your energies thinking of shorter text messaging "sentences:. omgymfass Not sure there is a “fell for it”. It may be a “spoof”, but the content is a true as the original.

Ajax does suck (almost all of the time).

It is the difference between books and tv for many people - with a book I can turn to any page I like, and I don’t have to keep seeing the annoying popup ads on the “free” tv program (which most people pay $50 a month for…)

I argue that eBay and Google are the prime examples of perfect sites that use “minimal” if any ajax. AJAX and similar technologies are crutches for poor UI designers.

Understand what the user wants to do, and it is easy to design a far more usable interface with a simple (non AJAX) UI.

Real internet you can bookmark, everything else is just a toy…

Maybe you can spend your energies thinking of shorter text messaging “sentences:.

omgymfass

]]> By: Chris McEvoy http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2005/as-predicted-jakob-says-ajax-sucks#comment-542 Chris McEvoy Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:46:38 +0000 http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/2005/as-predicted-jakob-says-ajax-sucks#comment-542 Donna, I'm glad you spotted it was a spoof. I hope that Jakob does publish the real one for comparison. Donna, I’m glad you spotted it was a spoof. I hope that Jakob does publish the real one for comparison.

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