March 5, 2006
Coolest AJAX UI ever built!
With the recent snow in Boston (some of which is still around) I found the time to build the coolest AJAX UI that I have ever seen. Some of the characteristics of it:
- Built 100% with off-the shelf AJAX components (7 in total)
- Each component is fully encapsulated with an off-the-shelf wrapper
- The interfaces between the components were so simple, I only needed to literally place each component (they were designed to be stackable).
- The total cost of the components was $8.41 (U.S.) and I had a few components, included in that price, that turned out not to be necessary to use.
- The only real trick to the entire exercise was getting the foundation stable enough to stack the components on top. I found that the initial foundation caused the components to crash, but with a few minutes of configuration adjustments the foundation was completely stable.
- I tweaked the alignment of the stack to try to get to optimal alignment. I could probably have spent a little more time perfecting the alignment, but the UI still looks very good.
Take a look at the UI here. It is extremely intuitive and you do not have to be familiar with AJAX to get an appreciation for the construction technique.
I think that you will agree that this is the coolest AJAX UI ever!
Dan Cornish said,
March 5, 2006 at 1:51 pm
You are the Man! Anyone who takes down the AJAX hype a few notches is all right by me. Just a warning, there is a new buzz word which I fear may become even worse. “Comet” . It is all about 1 way push whereas Ajax is about two way. Nothing new except the buzzword. Check it out. http://www.robgonda.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/4/Comet-server-pushed-Ajax
Peter Cranstone said,
March 5, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Brilliant!
Scales to volume, a must have for customers, works globally and there are no compatibility issues with any known operating system…
Of course it begs the question – how soon to Google figures this out and launches a competing product?
I hope you filed for some IP protection
Charlie Crystle said,
March 5, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Perhaps you’ve been away from the blog for too long…
Ross Brown said,
March 7, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Colorful, symmetrical and intuitive, I like it. Unfortunately, it requires the addition of water and Microsoft Sponge 3.0 to be truly effective…
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March 20, 2006 at 11:21 am
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Paul Murphy said,
March 30, 2006 at 7:55 am
… and you got my hopes up!
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April 26, 2006 at 8:16 am
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ganesh said,
February 16, 2007 at 12:43 pm
The only disadvantage is its not very stable or scalable and is not compatible with 3m’s netScrape.
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Aliepttal said,
November 24, 2009 at 3:36 am
Phat post, amazing looking weblog, added it to my favs!
Normalbob said,
February 12, 2010 at 6:17 am
Useless
Normalbob said,
February 12, 2010 at 6:17 am
What a tool. Nobody’s ever made that “joke” before
Chris said,
February 20, 2010 at 9:10 am
Dont forget, initally AJAX was a British battle-ship too!
anne said,
May 23, 2010 at 8:55 am
I got a good idea for ajax
Artur said,
August 7, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Idiot
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December 12, 2011 at 2:59 am
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