We had a similar issue recently. You want to use submission throttling. http://ajaxpatterns.org/wiki/index.php?title=Submission_Throttling
Take a look at the section on Zuggest. Rich On Jan 29, 9:58 am, Renso <rhollhu...@live.com> wrote: > I have a table with a couple of rows in my web-page. When the user > hovers over an image on each row, an ajax call is fired that gets some > data from the server for that particular row and displays it to the > user in a popup. However, the user may move their mouse very quickly > over the column with the images and generate a whole bunch of ajax > requests running all at the same time. By the way I use $.ajax and > specified async: false, but did not help. How can I cancel the > currently running ajax requests when the mouse triggers the hover > event on a particular row? So that when the user moves their mouse > over a particular row's image it will cancel all other events that are > currently running, does not have to necessarily have to be the same > event type, I'm ok if all other events are stopped/cancelled.
