Amazon adds Ajax magic

17 October, 2005

Amazon have added some Ajax magic to their recommendation pages, letting you rate and indicate an item’s status (rating, owned, rubbish) in-line, without having to refresh the page, and it’s a massive improvement in usability. I’m really quite impressed.

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Comments

Rob Oxspring

17 October, 2005 at 23:18

Yeah thats slick. But how long do you reckon before it filters down to amazon.co.uk? ;o)

Pip

17 October, 2005 at 23:29

That is amazon.co.uk!!! 🙂

Gary Lake

19 February, 2006 at 12:42

Hey there – looks like they are still testing this based on random IPs or something because at home I get AJAX amazon and at work I get regular amazon…

I’ve blogged it and grabbed the js source if you want to take a look…

garylake.blogspot.com

Pip

19 February, 2006 at 22:48

Yeah I’m not sure how they’re working it, sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t. It always feels much better when I do though – rating things is so completely intuitive this way.