More AJAX hotness

If you haven’t yet noticed, there is a new version of the Flickr website.

There are some things that I think are a step down visually, like removing the box around individual images, but for the most part I am impressed with the changes that have been made.

My favorite change so far has been the new ‘Organizer’ which is now completely powered by AJAXy goodness.   No more flash… feels good.

  1. personal avatar Long
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    March 1, 2007

    Oh, you’re right, it’s all AJAX, I didn’t even notice.

  2. personal avatar Zeo
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    March 1, 2007

    YUI is the new hotness!

  3. personal avatar Levi
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    March 1, 2007

    The new Flickr is great, some things are ‘so-so’ but most of the changes are nothing but forward movement; and that’s what we like to see.

    AJAX is tasty.

  4. personal avatar werner
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    March 1, 2007

    i use the opera browser so the new ‘Organizer’ dousn’t work :(

  5. personal avatar stchatterbox
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    March 1, 2007
    the new ‘Organizer’ which is now completely powered by AJAXy goodness. No more flash… feels good.

    Chris, why good if there’s no more Flash? It seems more and more professional designers and developers starting to “dislike” flash. For what reason?

  6. personal avatar Jeremy
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    March 1, 2007

    I like it because the changes are subtile. It will be interesting to see AJAX in a few years when things are movig along a lot more smoothly. Right now, I think we are still trying to define where to use it, and where it is overkill.
    Thanks for pointing it out!

  7. personal avatar James AkaXakA
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    March 1, 2007
    Chris, why good if there’s no more Flash? It seems more and more professional designers and developers starting to “dislike” flash. For what reason?

    Especially since JavaScript has a _far, far_ lower penetration than Flash (around 88 vs 97) - and Flash’s is set to increase a wee bit as it’ll be bundled with the Acrobat plugin.

    Integration-into-site wise, sure, “ajax” can be better, but how many people are going to be cut off? (Opera users it seems…)

    Also, the new menu system (especially the fact you have to click the menu instead of hover) is horrid - but that’s just me probably.

  8. personal avatar Usayd
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    March 1, 2007

    Yeah, it looks really sweet now - and it seems more efficient the the flash applet in my opinion. Most of the arguments for and against are just opiniated anyway, but i’m sure that their decision was properly discussed.

  9. personal avatar Peter F
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    May 24, 2007

    AJAX does seem to be the new black in the world of website design. Web 2.0 is a handy way of accomplishing things nowadays.

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