Breaking The Web
It’s nice to see that I’m not alone.
…best practices from the desktop model have still to penetrate into the mind of common Web 2.0 developer. The paradigm shift from server-side to client-side workflow created a void in best practices for Web development. Like any new cool and funky technology, Web 2.0 has many nice new features, but comes with a set of new problems, at least new in the area of client-side browser development. Plainly ignoring these issues may cause big problems from support to serious security exploits…
Gojko Adzic
Gojko goes on to list several ways that “new ajax” code rehashes old mistakes (that are mistakes of lazy programming, in my thoughts) and how to avoid those mistakes. He* even provides a ten point checklist for an ajax release. I’ve become very attached to checklists, because they help be less lazy.
* he? I can’t tell 
I’m sorry if I miss-identified.