Friday, February 17th, 2006
Flash without Flash with Script.aculo.us
Category: JavaScript, Prototype
, UI
The site is christofwagner.com and shows off portfolio of the artist.
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I liked it. A little slow on some of the image transitions, but overall nice. I hate Flash and sites that use Flash.
Wow, that completely crapped out for me. It expanded the container and then nothing, not even an error. Using a nightly of Firefox (Build 2006020904) so not sure if a bug in that, or a difference in rendering…worked fine (if a bit slow) in Camino 1.0. Interesting, at least.
ajax is not flash
Another pretty Flash site to share with you - only that it is not done with flash but with ajax. christofwagner.com is built using the incredibly useful script.aculo.us JavaScript library. The site looks great and the work shown is brilliant. But t…
Hi Ajaxians, thanks for the pointer. I think, the site is pretty neat. Elegant, minimalistic and simple. Then again, it is more about art and still discussed because of its technology, which I find a little odd.
I like the pictures there, maybe because they are from the city I live and work in? :-)
René C. Kiesler
That site really does look like Flash. It even has the flawed back button behavior of a Flash app! The site designer obviously doesn’t read Ajaxian.
Absolutely unusable site (
[...] A flash-like interface but, not flash… [...]
The point of this was to demostrate flash-like effects with ajax, but it was very slow and didn’t provide proper feedback to the user when it was loading images. The site probably worked nicely when it wasn’t under a load, but once enough people started hitting it, the time someone had to wait for an image to load went up causing a point where the app just sort a looked broken.
This is actually showing us something else important with any UI, and that’s quick feedback. You have to communicate to the user that tells them something is happenning. Just be patient. Every ajax call could potentially go off and wait forever, and you have to tell the user you’re doing something. Otherwise they think you’re code doesn’t work. Something rich client guys are very keen on. The web guys will have to learn this too.