Strategy: Send XHR Request on Lost Focus Instead of For Every Character

Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 1:33AM
Todd Hoff in AJAX, Strategy

Robert Stewart shared this useful Ajax related scalability strategy:

We avoided XMLHttpRequests for individual keystrokes, choosing to go back to the server only when a field lost focus. Google can afford all the servers to handle the load for that, but we didn't want to.

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Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).