Posts Tagged 'Flash'

Google Wave – Can We Do This With ICEfaces?

Wow. I only had a look at a third of the video everybody has a look at these days and I was already flashed. Although, mainly based on AJAX they indeed push the Web browser to the next limit.

icecubeWell, not really. Because, they talked about Google Gears and HTML5 to get all this. It is clear we won’t get this with the browsers we have today. So, we have to wait. ...

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Web Killer Apps: Buzzword – Word Processing Reloaded

Last January I wrote about Flex implementations on their way to replace current office applications. Today I had a deeper look at what Adobe has done at the wordprocessor front: Buzzword.

One of the most important design principles is reduction (apply Occam’s razor). If you’ve a look at the current office implementations you get 80% functionality even a power user will never use. Adobe has done a good job here. They chose the essential functions of todays wordprocessing.

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Creativity first

At the moment I have a deeper look at Flex stuff. So, from time to time I find related Flash stuff. Here’s a link to a page that I found today:

CREAKTIF !

Maybe not as intuitive as the standard stuff we see in the Web browser today. But amazing in the details.

Our teacher in physics at grammar school had a credo: With all the knowledge about the things behind, don’t forget about the esthetics and beauty in it.

Without a doubt: ...

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Flash or Pure Web Programming to Skip JSF or Struts?

I’m working with different JSF frameworks for some time now and had a look back to the Struts-based Common-Controls recently.

My last hands-on on Struts was in 2003. So, I can’t remember in detail if I had a good or bad feeling about using it. I remember that I chose it to get faster results. The learning curve was quite steep. But, reconsidering the time-frame I had the result was ok to me.

Todays JSF experiences in mind it was ...

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