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- 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? - stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try this also: http://www.jotform.com/index
You can grab source as well :) - 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.
- Craga89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kind of a misleading title. I'd say it was much more a flash based application than Ajax.
- 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.
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -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. - Ryosen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, kroccamen. Web 2.0 is not about xHTML(2)+AJAX+CSS3.
It's about marketing. Nothing more.
In related news, SysCon, publishers of Java Developer's Journal (and XML, and WebLogic, and countless other niche developer mags), has just released Web 2.0 Developer magazine. Just more proof that this is all hype, nothing more.
Web 2.0 makes me gag. - Ghostwheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work for me with Firefox 1.5 or IE 7.
- bkorte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sick of idiots complaining about anything Flash - this is a GREAT example of how to bring desktop-like fluid, quick interfaces to the web. Flash UI is the future.
Get off your open source high horses and look at what makes sense in the real world.
Give me a break. - 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.
- DietrichM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is Flash, it doesn't display anything without the Flash plugin.
- Jamezes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Flash = no digg
- MrHomeValueCom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well at least they are "web 2.0" design compliant
- inactive, 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 - xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0guys**
- xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who seriously in their right mind would use IE7? I mean c'mon! and about the spelling critics nothing wrong with that so props to you guy.. American Teens don't have an excuse for not being able to spell their own language correctly that's just pathetic, english is NOT even my native language it's tagalog (filipino) and yet I am both orally and grammatically fluent.. wtf I went off topic any way that that my opinion.. ^ ^
- SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
- binarymelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work for me in firefox, under ubuntu.
- 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.
- tellman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0flash != Ajax. capish?
- FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice but not ajax
- TomPetty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^yes doesnt work in IE7
no digg - 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... - TheMJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol @ tellman - It's "capeche"
- pbransford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0References "Web 2.0" - reported as lame.
- jcronkhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For me, these diggs are great for showing the potentiel of AJAX. We all tend to feel there are endless possibilities, but it's nice to see real examples. Great work!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow... the power of web 2.0. so they got a vc yet?
- born2win, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is good if you only want a form builder but what form is good without a backend database. Companies like Caspio (www.caspio.com) have been proving platforms (Caspio Bridge) for creating a hosted form that works on any site or pointing your own form to an online hassle free database (Caspio ExpressDB).
For me Web 2.0 means not reinventing the wheel. For web apps it means getting it out quickly and without pain. - overmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work. I'm on Opera, winxp. Weak.
- 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. - 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. - 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!
- 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.
- ohhmaagawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"*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"
You can expose your data as XML with flash. - elev8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bah, it's just flash, don't see what the big deal is.
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No digg. Requires blood-sucking Flash 8...
- 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 ...
- digghotdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppppppppppppper!!!
This is the exactly I want!! - cedsav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Keane.. the deal in the service you get for that price: RSS feed, email, charts, stats, export and all of that up and running immediately (plus the more responses you have the cheaper it gets)
If you don't need these features, you can still use the Form Builder for free and do your own sauce to process the responses. I'm fine with that.
Hope that answer your question (which wasn't one I know..) - keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0actually it looks like you might not need to pay if you follow this guys instructions
http://jeffpipas.com/blog/archives/2005/07/ajax_and_php_fo.html - keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@cedsav
$4.95 for 20 submissions to the form! Wow, what a deal!
/sarcasm - Adam13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Has anyone seen The Blue Form yet - http://www.theblueform.com ? It's fairly new, but offers a lot more enterprise features than some of the other lightweight form designers out there. In particular, offers complete control over the form workflow post-submission, which has been most useful to us!
- aprz43, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with Adam. http://www.theblueform.com looks great. It has a great form builder, but that is only a small part of the whole application. The ability to assign workflows to the form and the ability to create users, user groups and reusable reference data lists combine to form a very powerful yet simple application.
- mouthster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"anyone who cant build a form shouldn't be making web sites"
That sums it up right there. - veeneck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just to clarify. The Wufoo demo has one section ("Add Fields" tab on the left side of the page) that is done in Flash. The entire right side and the other two tabs are done in JavaScript. And in the public demo, no Ajax is being used.
All forms that are created will be standards compliant, and do not rely on Flash or JavaScript. We only use Flash and JavaScript for the form builder, but not the forms themselves. - jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this piece of ***** doesn't work with firefox or safari on my mac
- zatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i clicked "take me somewhere cool" and it brought me to:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/magiconline/articlenh020204
errrrrrrr no digg thats for sure -
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