Brett Chang’s Blog

Ajax, when implemented correctly, is a beautiful thing. But I hate hate hate hate AJAX when it becomes a major part of the navigation of pages and breaks the very basic FRONT and BACK buttons of browsers. The perfect example is blogspot.com.

So there I am, reading wonderful entries by some random strangers on web and scrolling all the way down on his/her entry to find older posts. I then click on “previous entries” and oops, I just see something interesting on the previous page, but I already click the link. What would an user do? Oh I don’t know, hit the “back button”? But guess what, where would blogspot take you if you use the back button? The page before you entered the blogspot.

Oops.

Sighs.

Guys at DIV tag camp, have you EVER wondered why Google doesn’t use DIV extensively on its pages?