Ajax Mistakes
Here’s a good overview of some things to watch out for when messing around with Ajax, or other web technologies.
The mistakes that annoy me the most are the Breaking the back button, Not using links I can pass to friends or bookmark, and Blocking Spidering. I like my back button. It should work, at least most of the time. Some pages have figured out that having links that you can actually link to is a good thing. For example, in Google Maps there is a “Link to this page” feature. I’ve also made sure that you can link to people’s schedules in Mschedule. For example, here’s a link to my schedule for fall ‘05. Blocking spidering can be a bad thing if the site relys on people finding it through search engines.
