Archives for January 2006

Ajax Best Practices: Don’t Break Bookmarks

This is the second installment of a multi-part series aiming to address Ajax criticism and show how using best practices is vital to making Ajax worth the while.
The Problem
In my previous post, Don’t Break The Back Button, I explained the difference between URL changing “horizontal” links and Ajax’s non-URL changing “vertical” links. If you […]

Ajax Best Practices: Don’t Break The Back Button

This is the first installment of a multi-part series aiming to address Ajax criticism and show how using best practices is vital to making Ajax worth the while.
The Problem
The foundation of the web has been the hyperlink from one page to another. The links between pages have been primarily bi-directional, in the sense that […]