myZend Experience with AJAX
I don't use very frequently my Zend account that's why I didn't notice this change, in myZend page I have this message :
Welcome to MyZend, your home at Zend. Here you'll find information to help you quickly navigate any service provided by Zend including updating your personal information, accessing product licenses and subscriptions and viewing your support ticket status. Using the latest PHP 5 and AJAX technology, we hope to bring a great web experience.
I just check it today because Demian from PHPKitchen reported a strange behaviour in myZend as you can see in his screenshot there is just the loading message which still there forever. Personaly I didn't got any problem and everything was loaded correctly, but really I don't see in what AJAX will be helpful in this page since all links open in new page ? Also it's not the kind of page that is checked everyday, and the day you check it you see it in beta and not working ?
It's the kind of thing that AJAX developers should be aware while creating their solutions, don't put AJAX anywhere and when you use it try to use it correctly. For example the case of myZend I loved the Javascript edit-in-place for my personal information and password, otherwise it's another complexity they have add. I know it's not really a hard thing they have done because they are currently testing a lot of things around PHP5 and their new framework.
The connection problem we have already talked about it, and timeouts should be handled to avoid getting things like the forever "Loading" message. But in that way the services should be more condensed, for example it would be great if I could submit a ticket support in the same way as I edit my personal info. At least the page will be more useful, and using AJAX will be justified to bring a great web experience.
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