By default Flash is turned off in my browser. The FlashBlock extension takes care of that.
That is why I was surprised to see a very dynamic Rijksmuseum homepage. I thought it was some Flash that had slipped by my blocker. It is not. This is what is possible by JavaScript in the browser currently and this is only the beginning.
The only shame is that the pages do not degrade gracefully if you turn off scripting in your browser.
Ik heb de homepage van mijn huis (http://gangbang.cjb.net) ook ooit gebaseerd op een flash pagina die hier erg op lijkt. Ik ben toen niet voor de dynamiek gegaan, maar het kan dus wel! GAAF!!!!!
Hey Cris! Your site at gangbang is not really working for me but I appreciate the idea.
Creating these kind of rich animations in JavaScript is somewhat tricky as of yet but most AJAX-toolkits provide their own animator class which greatly simplifies this.
It is a great way to show off how you can create rich interactive interfaces which are a lot more lightweight to create and to display.
You do now that there is one downside to AJAX? Because every browser has it's own implementions of css and javascript, it is very hard to get the same result in every browser. Also the use of activex int ie and general xml in other browsers is a nasty thing. The use of toolkits in this case is usefull.
I think I should know. It may seem daunting but there is a very reasonable baseline to work from. If you stick to that level the quirks that come up are easily bypassed.
Notwithstanding I'm al in favour of using good toolkits to help with the workload. Today at work I implemented a very user responsive form with fade and other animation effects using dojo.
Just the following line of code does the trick.
Ik heb de homepage van mijn huis (http://gangbang.cjb.net) ook ooit gebaseerd op een flash pagina die hier erg op lijkt. Ik ben toen niet voor de dynamiek gegaan, maar het kan dus wel! GAAF!!!!!