AJAX: will it be next big thing?

Check out http://www.baconbutty.com.

This site showcases the use of ajax. you can read more about ajax at adaptive path's publication. I think ajax is a wonderful thing for web development, as it allows server posting without refreshing the page and more. a developer can post to server and populate the page data without having to refresh the page, which can be annoying at times.

but imagine sites many sites in future becoming like baconbutty. visitors will be blur on why the browser back and forward buttons go to unexpected places, cannot bookmark, and whole site reloads from page 1 after a refresh. This is also a major komplain about full Flash websites. for the developer, he/she has to make customized links so that there are alternatives to the problems.

ajax can be extremely useful, if used correctly. for example Gmail is using it with good effect, i think. it is a responsibility of designers and developers not to abuse it like wat happened with frames and Flash in the earlier days of web development.