Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Gucci Relaunches on Script.aculo.us
Gucci has relaunched a very dynamic site on top of script.aculo.us instead of the usual Flash.
It does feel somewhat like a flash site, with minimal navigation, and a lot of horizontal scrolling.
When I first launched it on my Mac 30″ monitor it mazimed the width which was quite a show! (I am not a huge fan of resizing someones browser)
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Well.. thank you for the blog. Nice to look at but it reminds me of a Flash intro screen which we *all* know by now is “not a good thing”.
:)
Really… Really good! :D
Can somebody notify me immediately if you find out Gucci’s UI engineer has resigned? I’m equipped and would have *no* problem rocking those freebies (it’s only good business to strengthen the brand, of course).
Where is there the scriptaculous library? I can see only prototype.js.
If you do a “view source” on the site you will see that it’s built on top of prototype.js with custom extensions:
- js/prototype.js
- js/gucci-ext.js
- js/gucci-fx.js
- js/gucci-app.js
- …
but no mention of scriptaculous.js
Nicely done site, the UI effects are nice without being overdone - bookmarking/history stuff, etc.. my only gripe is the window resize, reminiscent of “web 1.0″ ;)
I’ll go out on a limb and guess there’s either a talented web developer behind the UI effects, or they worked well with a design team to get everything worked out. Either way, they did a great job. Very clean, flashy but without the flash.
this site was actually coded by thomas fuchs, maker of scriptaculous.
I like the product image zoom. Beyond that, it does feel like flash, which never feels good
[...] via: Ajaxian [...]
Only one word… WOW!
What about people having Javascript disabled? They will see a blank page.
Does the Gucci site frequently suck 100% cpu on anyone else’s computers? I’ve tested on Firefox - Linux & Mac. Just curious if it’s only me.
the site does not work on Opera also…
I’m not sure if Ajax is the best option for this kind of website, on my computer it feel sluggish and rape my CPU violently (PC P4, 3 Ghz).
What is the benefit over Flash?
This is really cool, no cpu problems (iMac G5).
I would also assume there are more people that have javascript on, than have flash working. I like how its not flash though.
Spectacular (spectaculous?) stuff! I especially love the #id history, makes for a neat effect when you go directly to a URL and the ajax “unfolds” itself to the proper state.
Someone should do a case-study/tutorial on how all that is managed behind the scenes.
amazing. i like the way he implemented the localization, using javascript to pick apart the url then grab a specific bit of json with the appropriate language. simple and effective. Also the zoom feature is really well done. I dont know how thomas can manage to keep up clients like this, while working on fluxiom, posting to miraculous, and keeping scriptaculous updated regularly… maybe im just a lazy bum.
It’s great to see a website now that’s implementing what we call webdesign without plugins. thats the correct way for the future.
the “but”s:
- the browser requirements are too high - ie 6, ff 1.5 - and fixed to the main browsers: what about opera 8.5? i see only a white screen.
- navigation over width instead of height is not an alternative if a want to use my scroll wheel.
But it’s nice to see all those new techniques working.
PS: Doesn’t work in IE 6. Webdesigners should re-prog the site.
Looks great. But I couldn’t figure out how to put something in the shopping bag. Bad. Bad. Bad.
http://www.iseemedia.com
I guess this is company who has given this New Avataar of Gucci.
They give interactive imaging solutions for web based applications.
Look great! But expensive!
That’s a really nice looking site, but seems a little tough to use. Not something I would build on my own, but still looks great.