AJAX utilisation

[Nathan]

How do you impliment Ajax on your sites? Do you think there is any value to it or is it a gimick?

The only really good use of ajax I've seen so far is used in Vbulletin.

Any other examples of good ajax use - beyond gimicks?

 

[Dave]

Yahoo does it pretty nice with their search thingy, well, i think thats ajax.

 

[Nathan]

just yahoo.com?
you know i never use yahoo for searching. i still think of them as a directory / portal than a search engine

 

[Dave]

just yahoo.com?
you know i never use yahoo for searching. i still think of them as a directory / portal than a search engine

I don't really see much ajax used around the place, except vbulletin like u mentioned.

 

[reteep]

live.com - completly AJAXed

 

[Nathan]

Yay for team microsoft hey

 

[Payton]

You guys don't use gmail? I thought that was ajax

 

[Stanley]

I use it for simple things like submitting feedback, voting in polls, user contribution (vote thumbs up or thumbs down).
There's plenty of these small things that AJAX is great for. But I would never use AJAX to design the entire site.

 

[reteep]

You guys don't use gmail? I thought that was ajax

True, gmail got a great AJAX integration.

 

[Nathan]

It does? How does it use ajax?

Are those "home pages" that yahoo and friends are all trying to get us to have that you can pick and choose what goes on the page are they ajax?

 

[CreationNation]

Iconbuffet.com has a great shopping cart that utilizes Ajax.

 

[Nathan]

Cool thanks. ajax is a strange thing. Been around a while but only recently became popular.

 

[JDA]

One thing that worries me is that Ajax minimizes page views. It doesn't matter so much with PPC ads like Adsense, but it could hurt you if you have CPM sites up and running.

Even little things like Ajax commenting, normal comment systems add a pageview every comment, you don't get that with Ajax.

 

[Nathan]

convenience vs profit?

 

[a.titus1]

convenience vs profit?

Why not both Convenience brings the people in, and then profit!

 

[Mark]

Don't forget Flickr

I use it to change things like article titles easily without refreshing the page. Little things like that.

 

[GeorgeB]

One thing that worries me is that Ajax minimizes page views. It doesn't matter so much with PPC ads like Adsense, but it could hurt you if you have CPM sites up and running.

Even little things like Ajax commenting, normal comment systems add a pageview every comment, you don't get that with Ajax.

I was gonna say the same thing. I use it on my riddles site and I must say it stings a bit when I think about all the pageviews I'm missing out on.

So that is likely the last time I'll experiment with AJAX.

 

[Nathan]

Don't forget Flickr

I use it to change things like article titles easily without refreshing the page. Little things like that.

Using a blogging software package or something else?

 

[kyleirwin]

I've been using "ajax" via Microsoft Remote Scripting for about 3 years. Although it can be used to do some nifty things with form verification and things of the like, there aren't many incredible uses for it on the average website.

It's definitely not over-hyped though, it (or something like it) will be a major part in online applications as they begin to become more and more popular.

 

[Mark]

Using a blogging software package or something else?

Well that's one application it could be used for. I use it for many of the bespoke CMS systems I code.