Although it took about a minute and a half to load, and here at work I’m on 5 T1 lines. It was well worth my wait IMO. Takes quite a bit to impress me a lot, but I’d have to say this was pretty darn impressive. A little buggy but brilliant none the less. No flash needed.
very impressive, I posted this in the irc room a week or so ago, is that where you got the link?
and people who don’t like it: he’s trying to show off his mad dhtml skills, I know this can all be done with flash but it’s not nearly as hard, with dhtml he both has to get all browser compaitibility and show off so he gets a job
Super duper buggy. half of the stuff would not work. And if you make your screen small most parts are not visible. Nice colors and concept. BUt I am afraid its lost in the buginess. I would imagine that very few browsers can see this stuff.
The point was the challenge - emulating “Flash without Flash”, ie. the animation effects. It’s all Object-Oriented javascript, there are objects for Windows, Events, Actions and an Event Queue.
The script has been written so that something like this will animate a window:
Window objects have other methods such as moveTo(), resizeTo(), restore(), etc. The animation library creates tweens (much like Flash), all you have to do is provide the coordinates “to” in the case of moveTo() and resizeTo(). Other methods such as maximize() are handled “automagically”.
The site was developed and has been tested under Mozilla, Safari 1.2 and ie 5.0+:win32 - the site initially will animate in under ie:mac, Safari 1.0-1.1, Opera (7 I think) etc. but will render unstyled content if any links are followed as those browsers don’t support the XMLHTTP object (as described on the site.)
Admittedly there are some resize-related bugs - the work isn’t complete, but it had been sitting on my hard drive for a while. The theory was if I put it live, I’d get more motivation to finish the rest.
I haven’t built out the “content framework” to provide templated fully qualified URLs to older browsers and those not supporting XMLHTTP yet - but it’s in the works.
I should mention the site may be a bit laggy due to traffic/routing problems, but the initial site code (~60 KB), images and sound effects (~55KB) etc. is around 190 KB in total.