http://blogs.purpleiguanasoftware.com/ en-us 40 Obscurata Craptacula comments <p><strong>ajaxturbation</strong> <em>n.</em> Excitation of oneself by gratuitous use of XmlHttpRequest, JavaScript and <span class="caps">DHTML</span> in contexts where they&#8217;re not necessary or useful, and where they result in needless code complexity, maintenance hassle, cross browser incompatibility problems and runtime brittleness.</p> <p>To be sure, I like Ajax as much as the next guy (probably even more) but coining this term seemed like too much to pass up after the afternoon of debugging I just did.</p> Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:20:00 PDT <a href="/articles/2006/04/28/ajaxturbation">Ajaxturbation</a> <a href="/articles/2006/04/28/ajaxturbation">Ajaxturbation</a>