Article:		Fixing AJAX: XMLHttpRequest Considered Harmful
Subject:		Make $$$ fast with XML
Date:		2005-11-10 00:13:57
From:		otto
The title for this article is a bad choice: Ajax ain't broken, and XmlHttpRequest is Not Considered Harmful by anyone. What's up next? "Make $$$ fast with XML"?

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• Conventions for humorous article titles (Make $$$ fast with XML)
  2005-11-14 02:37:09 Damian Cugley
  
  I agree. I'd like to suggest that variations on 'goto considered harmful' only be used in articles about a programming paradigm that is as ubiquitous and conventionally approved of as 'goto' was before Dijkstra's article, and which the article claims is so harmful that right-thinking people should avoid it. Joel Spolsky's essay arguing that exceptions a bad language feature (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/13.html) is a case in point.

  
  If on the other hand you are discussing some trendy new feature that everyone says is SO simple but which has a few tricky aspects, then 'XMLHttpRequest gotchas' might be more appropriate, or possibly some variation on 'What your mother never told you about XMLHTTPRequest'.