Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
IconDB – Ajax-enabled Icon Search
Category: Showcase
The site provides a handy sliding navigation on the left to pop out the search button to locate the icons. Click on the “IconDB” text there, and it will slide out to give you the search box. When you submit the search, the box will tell you how many results were found and start to fill them in there behind the interface. Click anywhere outside of the search area and it will slide back, showing you the icons located.
Clicking on each of the icons will show the details for it, including the owner, a link to download it, what the image type is, and some of the keywords that it can be found under. The bar at the top can be used to navigate between the pages either by clicking on the arrows on ether side or actually sliding the highlighted section around.
It’s an interesting interface and it’s nice to help locate some icons if you’re in need, but I do wish there was a way to just browse the keyword categories and see how many of each kinds of icons there are. It feels more like a guessing game right now of getting the right term to find the icons you might want. Even a “similar icons” option might work well.
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4 rating from 79 votes
Pfff guys, get real:
(…)The demo works only with Internet Explorer 6.
This is because of the limitations of other browsers. Other browsers are suited for advanced websites and simpler RIA’s. Challenger is based on an advanced framework that requires extended functionality that only IE delivers.(…)
It ain’t worth mentioning unless stuff is browser independent…
The interface is intriguing, seems to be well done.
The interface is really nice but I thought it would be simple to get to the results and there are no categories + the server is lagging tremendously at the moment.
A – for effort
C – for execution
Fox, what are you talking about IE only? I am looking at the site in Firefox and it is working splendidly….
Hi,
It works for me in Firefox 1.5.0.3. I like it! It is a bit slow in rendering the icons though.
I agree with Chris, there needs to be some way to view the icons by category. Right now, I am “guessing” at the tags.
Hi,
It works for me in Firefox 1.5.0.3. I like it! It is a bit slow in rendering the icons though.
I agree with Chris, there needs to be some way to view the icons by category. Right now, I am “guessing” at the tags.
In addition, my feeling is that the lock which controls the visibility of the left pane is not intuitive. It is not obvious what it does. You have to play with it a few times before understanding its function. I also thought that it would be better if the left pane was resizable.
Still, I liked it.
GREAT RIA.
COOL!
Whether it’s intermittent or consistent, I think the comment about it only working in IE is because of a JavaScript error that IT permits but FF doesn’t. I get a blank screen in FF and the JS console reports a few missing semicolons. I’m sure the author will discover this and fix it quickly enough.
[...] Erst letzte Woche habe ich mir zwei Bookmarks für kostenlose Icons gemacht da ich öfters mal Icons für selbst entwickelte Tools benötige und dann nie welche zur Hand habe. Gestern habe ich dann via Ajaxian IconDB entdeckt mit dem sich anhand von Schlüsselwörtern nach Icons suchen lässt. [...]
I agree with the other readers — great idea, but the UI needs a little more work before it’s 100% usable. It’d also be nice if it’d tell you what license each icon is released under so you can not only search by keyword, but by license.
Muy pero muy bueno, esta técnica de Ajax, ya no tiene lÃmite, el único serÃa la imaginación, no me joda, bueno si no me entendieron hablo español y escribo de igual maner, soy Colombiano y estoy anonadado con todo lo que hacen con Ajax…
It would have been good if the author could have spent some time to create a cross-browser version of this. I don’t think that this would be impossible
Don’t work with Safari :(
Work great with Firefox.. and looks great too.. good job.
[...] IconDB – Ajax-enabled Icon Search: ” If you’ve ever been stuck on a project looking for just the right icon to fill your need, you might want to check out the IconDB site and search for what you need. [...]
That looks really nice! also it doesnt work with Safari…
That´s what i need.
Thank you very much!
I found this page on google because I look for a new button design and your link to the Icon DB is exactly what I am looking for. Sometimes google can help you, even if you have to look around the corner from time to time :)
cool looking interface. Got to hand it to you.
Very interesting site!
Very great article!
Interesting, but difficult to understand…….
Thanks for the informations. They are very helpful to me.
Great and interesting article.
Very nice and interesting site.
Great work ! I really enjoyed browsing through this site. I will recommend it to my friends. Greetings
Absolutely great information – thanks for posting!
Thanks so very much for taking your time to create this very useful and informative site!
This site is much better.
This site is much better: http://www.iconfinder.net
Er.. sorry for the diversion in the thread folks, but Martin’s website (iconfinder.net) seems to proclaim that he is the author of the Silk icon set. While I have no problem with people using the set, but renaming it, claiming ownership, and relicensing under GPL without permission is just really really wrong. Both legally and morally. You don’t have any contact information on your site, so I’m having to air this dirty laundry. Please remove the icons from your site, or correct the naming/attribution/licence. Or contact me via my website. Or both. Both would be nice.
Great and excellent article t’s realy helpful. Thanks again.
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It´s a very useful article. Thanks!
yep, does not work with Safari, but hey, who is still using safary anyway?
It does a great job with Firefox and that is what counts… really good job
Good article, thanks a lot for putting all this together.
Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.
great site with very good look and perfect information…i like it
Great and very useful tips.
THX!
Great tips and a great site!
Great and interesting site.
Cool!
Well, they obviously can’t afford to have an algorithm like google. Perhaps, the best way for them to do this, is to team up with someone like Google to provide the most optimum of searches. But that might be taking it a little far. They should rather just ‘categorise’ things themselves (or get others to do it for them – like a social bookmarking site) and maybe that would make it a lot easier to find something you want. However, I must admit, the site is highly useful and so thanks for the link. I have a feeling that I will definitely be a regular there. Looks like the quality is top notch.
While I have no problem with people using the set, but renaming it, claiming ownership, and relicensing under GPL without permission is just really really wrong. Both legally and morally. You don’t have any contact information on your site, so I’m having to air this dirty laundry
Simple and very useful informations.
THANKS!
HEy thanks for these infos. I used to search on iconfinder . net, but iconDB is also great!
Is there anybody who can help translate it ino Polish?
the links in the articel are not working anymore? sad…