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AJAX has been bad for the web. Letting Javascript make requests without explicit user action & vetting of whatever it's sending is basically the reason the web'
by shantly 7y ago
AJAX has been bad for the web. Letting Javascript make requests without explicit user action & vetting of whatever it's sending is basically the reason the web's so messed up and user-hostile.
- anon1m0us 7y agoall this could be done without AJAX. Just loading a javascript file would enable this. Prior to AJAX, sending info was done by loading a "transparent.gif?value1=x&value2=y&value3=z" It's not technology that has ruined the web. It's greed.
- shantly 7y agoEven the earlier methods required JS to be able to trigger requests not explicitly intended by the user. And at least they usually fired up a loading bar at the bottom of the browser, so you could tell shenanigans were happening. AJAX made that cleaner and broadened its use, but yes, you could already make requests with Javascript that the user didn't want you to or didn't care to make for any purpose of their own.