Comments on: Making Every Specified Link Send Via Ajax Using MooTools

By: Paul D

Paul D — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:30:04 +0000

I still have not had a chance to really use this after an initial play/test, because I have started using jQuery which is a bit more accessible for me. MooTools seems a bit more of a pro coders tool.

@sol, the use of ajax in small measures can change the whole feel and quality of a site. You would probably not use it to import a whole new pages worth of content, but as Merrick said, for small bits of extra info or extra content from any database, it is invalueable. As an example, retrieving a users profile, so without leaving a comments page, you could see the profiles of the members that have commented.

Paul D.

By: Merrick Christensen

Merrick Christensen — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:25:28 +0000

While it depends a lot on the use case, often times it is beneficial from a user experience side to pull information using AJAX rather than a full page refresh. By no means does this post recommend only using AJAX ever but using ones intellect to decide when a good time and place for it is. For example, pulling in footnotes, or more detailed contact information.

By: sol

sol — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:07:55 +0000

Hello..

quick question.. what is the benefit of accessing a link using AJAX rather than actually going to that page ?

I’m a little confused on this one.

thanks

By: Merrick Christensen

Merrick Christensen — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:47:38 +0000

Wow thanks Paul.

By: Paul D

Paul D — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:10:08 +0000

Very cool, thankyou for sharing.

PS Love this blog, just found it and it is full of great stuff