[Fly on the Wall] Nice modals, web apps game changer, Popular Science, Squid Gates
Written by on February 21st, 2007 in Ajax News.
Some of the recent activity at our internal 37signals Campfire chat room:
Nice modals
| Jeremy K. |
check out the demo at http://okonet.ru/projects/modalbox/
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| Jeremy K. |
pretty nice modals built with prototype + scriptaculous
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| Ryan S. |
that modal demo is cool
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| Ryan S. |
i like how it slides down from the top, OS X-style
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| Jeremy K. |
yeah, feels more like an interstitial
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| Jeremy K. |
but maybe that’s just the mac culture burned into me
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Web apps game changer?
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| Sam S. |
JF: that basically amounts to cookies that can store more data
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| Sam S. |
I really don’t think it’ll be a “game changer”
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| Sam S. |
but we’ll see
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| Ryan S. |
BUT THE WEB IS THE NEW PLATFORM
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| Ryan S. |
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| Mark I. |
If you want to give up Rails and write all your apps in Javascript maybe.
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| Mark I. |
I don’t like Javascript that much.
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| Jamis B. |
just need a new framework
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| Jamis B. |
“Javascript on Jails”
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| Sam S. |
jails is right
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| Sam S. |
that’s what writing a web app in js would feel like
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| Ryan S. |
aren’t google apps written in JS?
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| Ryan S. |
do they generate the JS with magic or something?
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| Sam S. |
from what I understand, the client-side stuff is written in a Java framework that generates JS code
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| Jamis B. |
guh, that’s even worse
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| Sam S. |
at least for gmail
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Popular Science
| Mark I. |
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| Mark I. |
I was flipping through the February 2007 Popular Science when I saw the Backpack Calendar in the corner of the page.
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| Ryan S. |
oh how cool
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| Jason F. |
Woah on the BP Cal!
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| Mark I. |
I enjoy Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.
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| Jason F. |
MI agree—great pubs
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Squid Gates
| Ryan S. |
wow really bizarre marketing from microsoft in asia
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| Ryan S. |
also gates is looking more and more like a squid monster
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| Ryan S. |
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| Jason F. |
LOLOL
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Source: Signal vs. Noise
Original Article: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/279-fly-on-the-wall-nice-modals-web-apps-game-changer-popular-science-squid-gates