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Great point about the reuse. Everyone seems to be voting for the Ajax request to only contain data, and no markup, for various reasons. But this one is a big one. Thanks.

Mike M. Lin
– Mike M. Lin

2011-07-25 03:36:33 +00:00
Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 3:36
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Not to mention that JSON without markup is smaller and uses less bandwidth.

user11946
– user11946

2012-09-12 22:53:19 +00:00
Commented Sep 12, 2012 at 22:53
@JackManey: Also a good point. But the true cost of additional bandwidth isn't all that much after you already eat the cost of the HTTP request. And I can imagine some setups where you know the client machines are so crappy that it would cost you more to generate the DOM real-time using JavaScript. Think: Internal apps with users on ancient machines/browsers.

Mike M. Lin
– Mike M. Lin

2012-09-16 05:41:37 +00:00
Commented Sep 16, 2012 at 5:41

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