Comments on: CNN Politics Election Center

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:09:45 +0000

Somebody removed the duplicate js files… :-)
I thought it was nicely done. I like when they showed some parts of the page immediately, like text, then AJAX loaded the heavier elements like the charts. It’s nice because I could start reading the explanatory text, then check out the charts later. But some of their pages just load the whole thing with AJAX, which is not very helpful.

By: emehrkay

emehrkay — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:59:44 +0000

@RobRobRob – yeah, they should have polled or done something to that effect. Espn scoreboards update every 30 seconds – i think those are flash media servers tough, but it is still done

By: jdalton

jdalton — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:58:30 +0000

Is there any reason why sites liek these dont serve their JavaScript packaged and gzipped?

By: RobRobRob

RobRobRob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:55:03 +0000

I agree some Comet would have been nice… or even polling the server every few minutes would have been okay for me too because I probably refreshed the page 100 times last night.

By: emehrkay

emehrkay — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:33:12 +0000

I was playing around with this all of last night. It is pretty impressive. I feel that the ajax on load of a page was kinda unnecessary, but whatever. The page had some great syling and the “drop-downs” were pretty cool