Ajax Seminar : Part 4
Good talk by Bill Scott of Yahoo! (and previously Rico), cataloguing useability patterns in great detail. Too much to go into detail of them all here, but a few useful phrases stuck in my mind.
Just-in-time data - asynchronously fetching extra info
Just-in-time presentation - asynchronously fetching extra UI
Just-in-time logic - asynchronously fetching extra script
He also spoke about maintaining a symmetry of actions when writing transitions - if something slides out when it appears, it shoyuld slide back in again, etc.
Lots that I still need to digest,…
David Hannnmeier Hansson is telling us that ‘JavaScripting the DOM sucks a lot’ :) Back to the show.