http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/ Business Intelligence, Analysis Services, MDX, DataWarehousing and more... en-us Miky Schreiber Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:09:56 GMT newtelligence dasBlog 1.9.6264.0 miky@zahav.net.il miky@zahav.net.il http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/Trackback.aspx?guid=5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8 http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/pingback.aspx http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8.aspx mikypuff http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8.aspx http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetEntryCommentsRss?guid=5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8 A good example of how to not use Ajax.

Few months ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Starcraft 2 is on the way and they opened a web site to make sales promotions. In the sections where you see details about units and buildings in the new game, clicking on a unit will change 90% of the page with Ajax (no refresh in browser). The problem is that many heavy pictures and flash are loaded using this method and this makes the browser freezing for a while. I tried it with different browsers and different computers but it won't help. The browser always freezes.

Think twice when designing Ajax-enabled web page. Downloading too much data with Ajax can perform troubles. And troubled users won't come back to your web site.
http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8.aspx http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8.aspx Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:09:56 GMT A good example of how to not use Ajax.<br> <p> </p> Few months ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Starcraft 2 is on the way and they opened a <a href="http://www.startcraft2.com">web site</a> to make sales promotions. In the <a href="http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/">sections</a> where you see details about units and buildings in the new game, clicking on a unit will change 90% of the page with Ajax (no refresh in browser). The problem is that many heavy pictures and flash are loaded using this method and this makes the browser freezing for a while. I tried it with different browsers and different computers but it won't help. The browser always freezes.<br> <br> Think twice when designing Ajax-enabled web page. Downloading too much data with Ajax can perform troubles. And troubled users won't come back to your web site.<br> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/aggbug.ashx?id=5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8" /> http://www.miky-schreiber.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,5fad5923-22da-4a42-b18d-b176b3969be8.aspx Programming;Programming/Ajax