Originally Posted by mrkris

The idea of Ajax was to treat webpages like an actual application. No waiting for pages to reload for settings to change, etc. People are going to far with Ajax, it has its place, such as a backend for databases. I have written some Ajax code for wordpress that allows users to drag and drop posts into their 'favorites'. That's a neat idea, but for the most part, with galleries, etc, I feel it's a bit overkill.