Chocolate for Dogs

Came across this post at Dave Ward’s blog, and I walked away with mixed emotions about it.  Don’t get me wrong — it’s definitely a good concept: making a page more responsive is always great.  And I heartily recommend checking it out too.  But his example is highly .NET specific (and the example C# does rely on 3.5 stuff too, so keep that in mind).

There’s nothing wrong with that; just my personal preferences keep me relying less on ASP.Net AJAX, trying to work more with a more “natural” JavaScript library like Prototype.  I mean, I highly doubt that I’ll start porting my projects to Ruby on Rails or PHP or anything else that would require a non-.NET related JS library, but still…

Anyways, the concept he states is a good one: for (some) static content, use AJAX to load it dynamically instead of having the rest of your page wait for it.  Pretty simple, huh?

Maybe when I get bored this weekend, I’ll extrapolate it to Prototype.