Cache is your friend, not the enemy

Internet Explorer handles AJAX responses different than other browsers. It will cache the response. The tendency on most articles I’ve read is: Caching is bad and you need disable caching!. No!!! Although Microsoft didn’t program Internet Explorer to respond according to RFC IE should do, that’s not an excuse to totally disable Cache. When visitors click on a link they expect something happens. Although AJAX makes the response time shrink, you don’t have any guarantee about the novelty of the content. Continue reading

Last week I had some spare time and took a look at the Ajax hype. Instantly my attention was drawn by the loaders and to say the least, the load time on the WordPress blogs. Since I wanted to implement Ajax at my site, it was a bit of a turn off.

I first looked of course at the Gianni Milanesi’s AjaxWP. This looks promising if you like some DHTML in combination with Ajax. It’s also easy to setup… so what’s the problem? Continue reading