Friday, September 22nd, 2006
UI Cleanup: Telegraph Ryder Cup Scores
Category: Editorial
Now we are used to nice Ajax, and even Comet interactions, it over seems really painful to see a "live" scorecard like this that is only live due too:
Wouldn't it be nice if they added a splash of Ajax in here and:
- Have the current score change in real-time (ish)
- Update the cells as they happen (each hole is finished)
- Have a highlighted bar at the top showing you the latest news "Europe went 1/UP in the X game with an eagle to the US's par"
But then again, is it worth it for them to spend the time on this? The current solution works across more browsers.
I would like to think that it is worth spending this time (minimal), and in fact, now I will head over to another site that is more interactive (show me the puts as they happen, etc).
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Would it really add to your experience to see this in Ajax? Doing it because it’s cool to do doesn’t mean you should do it.
this is news???
First I will like to says this post was useless to the creative process you guy’s are trying to pass to us reader.
If you really want to make a point give us an example of the site where I quote “I will head over to another site that is more interactive” like that you can make a constructive study.
Question 1) Do you have any idea the amount of traffic a page like this get while the ryder cup is on.
Question 2) You says “worth spending this time (minimal)”. Do you have any idea the amount of time it it take to implement rich user interface on this kind of high traffic website?
Just re-think for a second the load on 1. the production server 2. the database request 3. the caching framework.
Please don’t take this the wrong way but there is a difference between developing a prototype or funky website that will get 1000 request when people discover it and a high traffic website that will 100 thousand of request per minutes over a reather long period.
Regards