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Create a nice Web Forms online - Ajax style

wufoo.com — Wufoo.com is a new Web 2.0 app, created by Particle Tree. It is an online Form Builder, enabling you to create nice-looking forms. At the moment it's only in Beta (surprise - surprise !), and nothing about what we can do with the forms after we create it. But check out the public demo, it's a very nice implementation of AJAX.

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  • rikcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is really cool...it will be great when you can grab the sourse code. One of my pet peeves about this is that it doesn't work in safari. Seems alot of recent Ajax apps have trouble with Safari..ie Google Pages.
  • herrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sorry, but a beta usually has a payoff. You use it, get at least some benefit from it and report any problems. This has no payoff. You use their interface and then... That's it. Nothing else. No benefit.

    On the other hand, when it actually is done and provides something tangible for your efforts, it will probably be ass cool.
  • stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try this also: http://www.jotform.com/index

    You can grab source as well :)
  • tazamore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13An appeal to Digg readers:

    Please stop digging Web 2.0 beta web sites that require sign-up to do anything useful. We must do our part to stop encouraging this annoying behaviour.

    If you have a cool web app, fine, then let people try it without jumping through sign-up hoops. But then you ask with a pouty face, "...then how do I get people to sign-up?" Gee, I don't know, maybe some people might want to save their working preferences and come back to your site later on, which would require a user account... are you still with me? Here it comes... I know it's very complicated just bear with me... so when visitors want to save what they were working on or their preferences, they login... which requires... come on, say it with me, which requires... a sign-in!!!! Oh my God!! That's how you get people to sign up!!! Sign-up to to save your work! What a mind-bending concept!!! But Wait! What if they don't sign-up? Then they lose their work! Nothing is saved! WOW!!!!

    So what have we learned today? Let's review:

    1. Sign-up required to do anything useful == No digg.

    2. No-hassle useful web sites == happy users == more users == more members

    Wow. Isn't common sense amazing?
  • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, i'm going to pay a website to let me create forms for my website?

    "Brilliant"..

    *eyeroll*
  • instereo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, this must be the most pointless thing, ever.
  • pkkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seems to be broken in IE7 :(
  • Craga89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kind of a misleading title. I'd say it was much more a flash based application than Ajax.
  • TomPetty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^yes doesnt work in IE7

    no digg
  • FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice but not ajax
  • tellman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0flash != Ajax. capish?
  • shrapnull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll play devil's advocate. That is the sharpest combination of AJAX and Flash I've ever seen to date. I've been very skeptical of the friggen Web 2.0 hype, but this is something where form(s) meets function. It may not be that useful yet, but if they finish the product it will asplode.
  • tuartboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Kind of a misleading title. I'd say it was much more a flash based application than Ajax."

    Yeah, that would make more sense if it were made with flash. Since none of it is, however, I think we can safely call it a well-written thick client, and not compare flash with "AJAX". The "AJAX" part only refers to the asynchronous connection with the server and has nothing to do with the animation.

    The only real comparison with the AJAX functionality in flash is the loader component.
  • sierranovember, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Kind of a misleading title.."

    With grammar like that? No way.
  • tuartboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I apologize. I spoke before I investigated, therefore making a total ass of myself. A simple source code view revealed my error (which I should have done beforehand).

    Beg your pardon...
  • binarymelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work for me in firefox, under ubuntu.
  • pbransford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0References "Web 2.0" - reported as lame.
  • TheMJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol @ tellman - It's "capeche"
  • thespace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow... the power of web 2.0. so they got a vc yet?
  • keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Seumas

    This has been the business model of http://www.logiforms.com/ for a while. They've been around since at least 2001. The difference with wufoo is that (1) it works in Firefox (2) it doesnt allow for multipage forms/conditinal logic (3) at this time, does not offer other services and (4) its ajaxified. Oh, and in the beta it doesn't really do anything.

    Someday someone should write up a comparison of the two.
  • keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and when i say its ajaxified i mean its flashified.
  • dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's pretty amazing...but what's the point of the thing? i can create forms...it's trivial....
  • dkarlson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice little use of the lightbox script at the end. Although I don't think that wizards.com qualifies as "someplace cool". But that's just me.
  • wahooka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i think most people are missing the point....

    its a slick way for people who know nothing about html / coding to create nice looking forms.

    annoying that it isn't open source and it doesn't even give you the source?

    anyone know a similar web builder project which is open source?
  • chrisc2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If I see the "Web 2.0" one more time today, I'm going to put my fist through a wall.
  • shrapnull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well it says it uses Flash 8 for the animation so I would imagine it won't work on most *nixes for now. Plus, IE7 doesn't have full support for either so don't expect it to work in there. Basically, it seems their spec puts it ideally with Firefox on XP with Flash 8, or potentially Safari in OS X (I haven't tried that one).
  • bradmoreland, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4"It's pretty but it doesn't do anything."

    The very definition of Web 2.0.
  • Athlwulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried this thing out and it was fairly straight-forward with a nice interface. I hope they make it even more functional by adding logic so that as the user selects certian fields, the rest fo the form will change--otherwise, I don't see this as anything more than a novelty.
  • Majdaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0at first i was blown away at how fast the whole interface loaded and how smooth the interface was...thought it was a revolution in the making...then i checked the source code and it was flash...which explained a lot of things.

    However, the interface is great, really good job making it easy to use.
  • pgorley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Spellcheck?
  • pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"its a slick way for people who know nothing about html / coding to create nice looking forms."

    Or it's a slick way for lazy SOBs like me to make a styled form in minutes without coding a table and form code...
  • Coreguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0see it on Lifehacker today

    very cool

    digg++


    now more and more web services are providing tutorials for our blog/site design. That's good.
  • fowkswe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is this on the front page of digg?

    why are you confusing ajax and flash.

  • mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"why are you confusing ajax and flash. "

    Um, the site has a blatant of Ajax that uses Flash as input. It's pretty innovative, so I think it deserves a front page digg. So stop bitching about it not being ajax and not being on the front page.
  • Hoohoonick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+digg cause it has ajax or web2.0 in the title
  • CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is awesome. The demo page is so dynamic; I found it hard to tell what was Flash and what was HTML at first.

    I can't believe how much negative feedback there is on this just because "AJAX" is in the title.
  • zeeneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone who cant build a form shouldn't be making web sites
  • Xenoxi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Again with the hello traditionals digg.com grammars mistake!
  • KrocCamen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THIS IS NOT WEB2.0, repeat - not web2.0. Web 2 is xHTML(2)+AJAX+CSS3. Nearly all of these technologies are not even implemented yet. Nothing web2 exists today, a fancy skin and a pointless site != web 2 you nonces.

    *sigh* web2 is about highly semantic, cleanly coded and accessible documents (i.e. no flash) that utilize the transparency of information in XML. Not this hype *****; that's web 1.5
    • cdcarter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Web 2.0 is what people make it, not what anybody says it is. So far, thinsg taht have been called Web2.0 include dropshadows, AJAX, and big fonts. That is what web 2.0 is. What you are talking about is the semantic web (and AJAX). It will come, but is not Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is now, it is buzzwordy, it is annoying, and it is very big fonts.
  • DietrichM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is Flash, it doesn't display anything without the Flash plugin.
  • Neil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lmao, I know that. I wanted to know when someone ellse would find out. If it was AJAX I would have the whole site code copied by now.
  • DeadlyHunter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0



    -------------------REPORTED LAME------------------
  • digghotdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppppppppppppper!!!
    This is the exactly I want!!
  • gullevek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oh wow ... so ... LAME. My god, a flash that sends something to a server and data comes back. Thats some probably every php/jsp/asp/whatever hacker did already years back. oh this lovely BS marketing ...
  • norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am so sick and tired of all these fools trying to pick on everybody because of a simple missplelling. Get a life people!
  • asdren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jotform is pretty cool.
    I'm all for anything that makes the mindnumbing task of building forms a bit more interesting.
  • dfunked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll further your comment jack1, and say I am SICK TO DEATH with 90% of the comments on digg. It's flooded with idiots who jump at the chance of trying to sound like the brainchild of AJAX / WEB2.0 / C++ / the Internet / Linux / life.

    Take away the keyboards from these digg users, PLEASE.
  • overmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work. I'm on Opera, winxp. Weak.
  • cedsav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To wufoo's defense, it is an Ajax based app, with Flash as an 'animation under-layer' (in the authors' words).
    Now, I hope you'll forgive me for pluging http://www.formassembly.com since it does what they are aiming at. Ajax-based Form Builder. Semantic XHTML+CSS output. Free to use. Works in Safari, Opera, Firefox, IE.. no flash required :-) There are paying services, but only if you want to benefit from the form processing features.
  • reets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reported as Inaccurate. This has nothing to do with AJAX, it's Flash. It's AJAX, not AFAX.
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