Common AJAX Mistakes

With the advent of Web 2.0 the Web Application has now become more interactive in nature thanks to AJAX. But this interactive using AJAX comes with some mistakes that people generally doesn't follows.

Below are the list of mistakes that AJAX gives you as a gift.

1. No Back Button Functionality.
By default the browser stores the webpage visited in the History Folder, but with AJAX the browser is unable to retrieve the dynamic data.

2. Waiting Endlessly.
The AJAX functionality largely depend on the network connection and the bandwidth. AJAX works well with good Internet Connection so if you are using dial-up you will have to wait until the response comes from the server. But if your browser get struck in between the AJAX call irrespective of the internet connection then your browser window is dead until the user reloads the page or opens a same page and writes the same content again and submit.

3. Using AJAX for the sake of AJAX.
AJAX is a very good feature to implement in todays web world but you also have to make count of the usability of it.

4. Cross Browser Compatible.
If your web application is targeting multiple browsers you will have to make sure that the AJAX object gets created and will work seamlessly on all the browsers.

5. Browsers Load.
Making too much AJAX calls will degrade the browser performance and it will become slow. This will make the user experience horrible for your site.

6. Bookmark Links
Users cannot bookmark the page having dynamic content fetched using AJAX. The reason is AJAX will fetch the data dynamically from the server and the bookmark link will only store the static data stored in the internet cache folder.

7. Enable/Disable JavaScript.
AJAX purely works with JavaScript and if the users browsers has JavaScript disabled then the AJAX functionality will not work.