Comments on: A Seemingly Snappier User Interface http://scriptnode.com/article/a-seemingly-snappier-user-interface/ Tips and tricks for web developers. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:29:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt Hackett http://scriptnode.com/article/a-seemingly-snappier-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Matt Hackett Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:24:17 +0000 http://scriptnode.com/?p=263#comment-271 @Jani Hartikainen I certainly agree it should be used only when the error case *is* the edge case. Though it looks like Google employs this method rather effectively, it would probably fall flat on its face if used by Twitter. @Jani Hartikainen I certainly agree it should be used only when the error case *is* the edge case. Though it looks like Google employs this method rather effectively, it would probably fall flat on its face if used by Twitter.

]]> By: Jani Hartikainen http://scriptnode.com/article/a-seemingly-snappier-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Jani Hartikainen Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:19:49 +0000 http://scriptnode.com/?p=263#comment-270 This is a good way to make the UI snappier - provided you can actually assume it works. I've used some sites with this kind of behavior, and it's *extremely* annoying to realize that the previous page you were on didn't save your ajax-sent results and you have to go back. At that point you completely stop trusting the UI and have to constantly check that the changes actually were saved, and take steps like only use one UI item at a time to prevent multiple ajax requests or whatever it is that is messing up the stuff, which basically nullifies the whole point of this. This is a good way to make the UI snappier – provided you can actually assume it works.

I’ve used some sites with this kind of behavior, and it’s *extremely* annoying to realize that the previous page you were on didn’t save your ajax-sent results and you have to go back. At that point you completely stop trusting the UI and have to constantly check that the changes actually were saved, and take steps like only use one UI item at a time to prevent multiple ajax requests or whatever it is that is messing up the stuff, which basically nullifies the whole point of this.

]]> By: Julien Lecomte http://scriptnode.com/article/a-seemingly-snappier-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Julien Lecomte Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:06:51 +0000 http://scriptnode.com/?p=263#comment-269 I called this pattern the "optimistic pattern" because it is based on the assumption that a request is extremely likely to succeed on the server side (if validation is properly done on the client of course) For more details, please refer to: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/12/20/video-lecomte/ Cheers! Julien I called this pattern the “optimistic pattern” because it is based on the assumption that a request is extremely likely to succeed on the server side (if validation is properly done on the client of course) For more details, please refer to:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/12/20/video-lecomte/

Cheers!
Julien

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