What impresses you on a website?

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What did you last find really impressive on the web? Something made with...

AJAX
10
48%
Flash
1
5%
Multimedia (audio, video, images)
0
No votes
Social Networking (user generated content)
1
5%
XML (cross-site syndication, feeds, mashups)
2
10%
VML/Canvas (like Google maps)
2
10%
Something else.
5
24%
 
Total votes: 21

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superdezign
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onion2k wrote:
Kieran Huggins wrote:When something just works (and works well) with little to no learning curve, that's impressive. Facebook does this well, so does last.fm. It's way harder than it looks!
That doesn't apply to facebook. There's loads of things about it that are completely strange to a new user. Poking and wall-to-wall being prime examples.
Concept-wise, maybe. It shouldn't be confusing to anyone who's ever used a similar community website before, though. I do believe they should get rid of poking, but if them making the website easier to use and more feature-heavy caused the ruckus that it did, imagine how many anti-Facebook-changing groups would spring up when they DELETE something.

When they re-designed Facebook, I'm sre they wanted to just kind of start from scratch and make it amazing. However, they had to keep everything that they started with. They still have the networks, which they don't want to keep, seeing how much traffic MySpace receives. That's why they opened it up more.
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Technology used in new and amazing ways impresses me on a website. Example: http://www.interacttenways.com/usa/sumona.asp click on "launch light"
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I tried that link and it required that I have a plugin. That is not necessarily my idea of something impressive. :wink:
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Do you have a fully fledged adventure park a la Disney World at home? If not, you'd have to drive there as well if you want to see it.
In short: where's the effort, mate? ;)
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superdezign
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Everah wrote:I tried that link and it required that I have a plugin. That is not necessarily my idea of something impressive. :wink:
Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.

I'm generalizing from my own browsing experiences though.
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Post by onion2k »

superdezign wrote:Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.
Java in the 'embedded applet' sense is dead and buried. Inline media applications come in the form of Flash and VML/Canvas with JavaScript.
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onion2k wrote:
superdezign wrote:Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.
Java in the 'embedded applet' sense is dead and buried. Inline media applications come in the form of Flash and VML/Canvas with JavaScript.
I meant like, games. That's the only thing I'd ever really seen Shockwave used for.
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