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As companies and individuals (this means you) continue to sort out just what the big deal about Ajax is and how it can help them, they need to also look at some of the things they need to consider about its implementation into their site. Thankfully, FrontForge has created a basic list to help you get started.

It seems that many organizations are evaluating Ajax these days but we fear that some are applying the wrong selection criteria. This article presents our top 8 features to include in your Ajax evaluation, and explains what they are and why you would want them. These are features that next-generation Ajax frameworks support, but that the older generation either do not support or cannot support without major effort.

The list is:

• Back button, history, and bookmarks
• beyond widgets: standard and custom behaviors
• single-page interface
• productivity and maintainability
• client-server
• XPath targeting
• comprehensive event model
• state and the observer pattern

For each of the items, they provide a little background and detail on what about the topic needs to be considered. They include a few graphics here and there (worth 1k words, and all) and provide a great overall look at the serious considerations developers need to make before implementing Ajax in their application.