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[Feld0]

AJAX code is run on your own PC, which is why it sucks hardcore and should be abandoned.
But hey, IT loves buzzwords, right?

I hear cleverkite are pretty good.
Cloud though.

What?

What's wrong with cloud? Overall, it has gotten a bit of a bad rap because some of the earlier cloud providers experienced all kinds of issues with their infrastructure. But CleverKite definitely gets it right. From my end, my cloud works no differently than a regular VPS - except that it's many times faster and very easy to scale.

A content delivery network is a system that caches images, CSS, scripts, and other files that make up the site's front-end on thousands of geographically dispersed servers. When you visit the site, the CDN loads the files from the server closest to you, reducing latency and increasing page load speeds.

My credentials are in software and web development, what are yours?
AJAX uses Javascript on the local browser to display your flashy text that doesn't need you to press F5 to update.
It increases your CPU's load.

I never said it makes your pages load slower. I said it's run on your local PC, and should be abandoned due it being the worst thing to ever happen the internet.

I think you're being a little unfair towards AJAX here. It can add lots of neat interactivity to pages (for instance, IP.Board will let you know if new posts are made to a topic while you are replying to it, and gives you the option to display them), and can reduce server load by grabbing certain data only when the client explicitly requests it. For instance, in IP.Board, you can see topic summaries from a board index that include a topic's first post, first unread post, and last post. Collecting all of this information for 40 topics (on one page of a forum) will make the generation of that page significantly more intensive for the server, when most clients will not even open all these topic summaries. Thanks to AJAX, these three posts can be retrieved and used to display the summary only when the user requests them, which also means the server does not need to generate a full page around them.

AJAX can be quite useful, really, both from a user's and a site owner's perspective.

[Nollog]

My preferred methodology is KISS, and if I'm providing a service, I should shoulder most of the burden of running that service, and try to make the end user's experience as easy and fast as possible.

I like cloud, but it over-complicates things.
AJAX doesn't fit my methodology.
I've used both, but it's my preference not to.

Cloud is the next big buzz word, if it isn't already. In actuality it won't bring anything worthwhile to the user, but it'll be used and pushed.
Same with AJAX. Look at all those little things you don't need and are pretty pointless, but it's being used and pushed.

Edited by Nollog, 05 March 2012 - 11:30 AM.

[Mii]

Without AJAX the Net would've never been the same. And Javascript doesn't take that many load when used smart.

Edited by Mii, 05 March 2012 - 11:59 AM.