AJAX & Flash What we learned building SlideShare.net Jonathan Boutelle

Jonathan Boutelle

First www.jonathanboutelle.com www.slideshare.net/jboutelle

www.jonathanboutelle.com

www.slideshare.net/jboutelle

ymmv

Play the field You don’t have to choose You quite possibly need both

You don’t have to choose

You quite possibly need both

Keep Flash on a leash http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/california-gold-nugget.htm

SEO ;-<

Load time ;-<

Flash nuggets as best practice Full-Screen a no-no

Cheapest Tricks “Is it even AJAX”?

“Is it even AJAX”?

Tabs

Accordions

MicroLink

One-Second Mutation

PopUp

Cheap Tricks and Server-side Performance

3) Cheap(ish) Tricks Malleable Content Progress Indicator One-Second Spotlight

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Progress Indicator

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Cheap Tricks and server-side performance (2)

Net Impact (on engineers) (on users) (on IA)

Rocket Science

When to save?

Flash Version

Initial Latency is OK!

Malleable Content

Drag and Drop

Room to Grow!

Data Grid

4. Flash graphic goodies Fonts Vector graphics Animation

Fonts

Vector graphics

Animation

Flash multimedia output

Flash multimedia input

Flash multimedia editing

6. Widgetopia! Yes, I mean widgets

Yes, I mean widgets

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Upload progress bars

7. Cool, but not useful to me Sockets Local data objects FLEX

Sockets

Local data objects

FLEX

8. AJAX FLASH crossover Artists

Finally

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