Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Visualistic: Ajax Room Designer
Category: Showcase
In response to our article on Behr, Nick Snell pointed us to Visualistic which is a purely Ajax version in development.
Read more about Project Visualistic.
2.8 rating from 48 votes
No worky in FF. Throws an event error.
Just about to say the same thing :(
Great idea but dont think I could be bothered firing up IE just to see if it’s broken over there as well.
my Foxy su#%s here. 1 star…
In IE, very slow to loading and reloading thumbs.
FF doesnt work!
Bad Ajax programing!
It works in IE but you can’t see the swatch being dragged and it reloads the entire image after changing a color or floor. Do they have a database of images with one for each floor and color combination? Sherwin Williams has a very similar application built using Flex that works much better in my opinion.
Opera works fine as far as i can see
Why even post this? The readers of this site are all likely using non-IE browsers. Its an insult and a waste of time.
This is lame use of AJAX. It just showing you a static image based on your selection. AJAX use is minimal. Waste of time.
Kind of neat as a “live preview”, but I wonder why there’s any use of XHR or drag and drop - neither are necessary here. If you can click a carpet type and see it right applied right away (you wouldn’t drag carpet to your wall, would you?), why use drag and drop with “targeting” if there’s only one target?
Secondly, shouldn’t there be separate sets of pre-rendered images for the different combinations which should take minimal time to load?
And the final stake through the heart, “IE-only”? It’s 2006! :)
IE only? it works in FF here, its pretty slow though - i agree with scott it would be better to just pre-render all the images rather than rendering on the fly though…
Why make it with images, an online 3d viewer like http://www.turntool.com would be albe to view the very same content real time in 3d within the browser.
Why did they bother using this approach, it seems like drag and drop for the sake of it. A click and view would have done the same job. Also its damn slow.