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by Angsuman Chakraborty.
Original Post: When *not to* use AJAX
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An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax.
This is bad because:
Search engines like google cannot see it.
Users cannot bookmark the pages.
It doesn't indicate anything is happening, which can be bothering over slow connections. This can be remedied [...]