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I stumbled across a link at digg.com to a page that looked like it was the latest Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox. Titled, Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the Time), I read it and was completely unaware that is was a spoof until I got to the following section:

When It’s OK to Use Ajax

If you are working in a Web2.0 company that needs to provide evidence of their technical expertise in order to gain new clients. However, you must remember to keep your offering in beta and make sure that it in the same family as these examples:

• geotag-based apps via flash
• tag-based instant messaging via Ruby on Rails
• community podcasts via api mashups

LOL

At that point I actually looked at the URL, and after looking at the page again found a link to Confusability which then lead to the article this spoof was made from.

It got Ajaxian.com uptight, and a very long post explaining why he was wrong got posted before they realised it was a spoof.

It was believable though

The original 1996 anti-frame article didn’t need much modifying at all to sound at least marginally convincing, though I’d say that AJAX has more place in web development than frames ever did.

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