Comments on: Gucci Relaunches on Script.aculo.us

By: No

No — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:29:00 +0000

Looks great. But I couldn’t figure out how to put something in the shopping bag. Bad. Bad. Bad.

By: Andi

Andi — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:15:18 +0000

PS: Doesn’t work in IE 6. Webdesigners should re-prog the site.

By: Andi

Andi — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:52:56 +0000

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.

By: Chris Iufer

Chris Iufer — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:23:39 +0000

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.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:42:27 +0000

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:37:48 +0000

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.

By: chino

chino — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:32 +0000

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?

By: SimoneB

SimoneB — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:33:07 +0000

What about people having Javascript disabled? They will see a blank page.

By: Siarhei Barysiuk

Siarhei Barysiuk — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:51 +0000

Only one word… WOW!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:08:11 +0000

I like the product image zoom. Beyond that, it does feel like flash, which never feels good

By: solo

solo — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:41:22 +0000

this site was actually coded by thomas fuchs, maker of scriptaculous.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:26:10 +0000

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.

By: Jean-Marc Orliaguet

Jean-Marc Orliaguet — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:48:02 +0000

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

By: Tobias Buschor

Tobias Buschor — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:50:35 +0000

Where is there the scriptaculous library? I can see only prototype.js.

By: Ramon Bispo

Ramon Bispo — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:16:54 +0000

Really… Really good! :D

By: Dan Acuff

Dan Acuff — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:12:29 +0000

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”.