Ajax Beyond the "Cool" factor: Design Principles and Patterns

About this Presentation

How do you build a truly usable Ajax application? Which strategies are programmers using to make life easier for themselves as well as their users? This session illustrates principles and patterns for effective Ajax applications.

We begin by looking at the critical forces in Ajax web development, forces which often conflict with each other. We then look at real-world design principles which have been followed to address these issues, from both a usability and a technical perspective.
These principles by themselves may be interesting, but they are too abstract to be applied in isolation. So this presentation will overview a range of Ajax design patterns along with some of the applications they're based on. Most of these applications are production systems, but I also throw in some of the more speculative patterns for good measure.
Finally, we look at the key architectural questions in Ajax, such as: Ajax-Lite or Ajax-Deluxe? XML or plain-text? Cross-Domain Proxy or On-Demand Javascript?