title: Is this too much data for an AJAX request?
body: <p>I have a 20-column grid with anywhere from 100 to 1,000 rows. </p>
  
  <p>If each cell averages 50 characters, I would estimate that a 1000-row grid would consist of 20x50x1000 characters = 1MB.</p>
  
  <p>The data for this grid has to be returned by the server in one (or more) AJAX requests. The grid is un-editable... it is just a way of representing a lot of information (about human genes, in particular).</p>
  
  <p>I am having a hard time deciding whether I should return this in one AJAX request or several. Do you think this is too much data (1MB) to return in the XML/JSON response of one AJAX request? Is this an anti-pattern? Or does it make sense seeing how all the data is logically part of one grid?</p>
  
  <p>This is more of a design question than anything else. I appreciate any feedback.</p>