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- encytemedia, on 05/10/2008, -1/+164Amazing, yes. Ajax, no.
- kevdotbadger, on 05/10/2008, -3/+104Another moron misusing the term "AJAX".
- cvxdes1, on 05/10/2008, -2/+56Wasn't this already dugg....?
http://digg.com/programming/Processing_visualizati ... - fkr3, on 05/10/2008, -2/+34Digg will find a way to combine it with AJAX to use in their fight against fast rendering.
- Aidenf77, on 05/10/2008, -5/+25AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
AJAX is a collection of web technologies that mediates correspondence from client to server sans the whole-page postback in a more efficient, immediate, and responsive way. It can, for instance and among other things, allow for databases to be queried, server-side scripts to be processed and results to be formatted without the whole page needing to be submitted to the server, processed, and returned with a page refresh; allowing only certain parts of the page to be updated as necessary. It's the sort of thing that allows auto-suggest textboxes like one might see on wikipedia or newegg; again, among other things.
While this library makes use of Javascript, it doesn't have anything to do with AJAX. I looked at the source code for any instantiations of XMLHttpRequest() (or Microsoft's version[s]) and didn't find any. It's a cool library nonetheless though. - legendxx, on 05/10/2008, -2/+18massive dupe
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -2/+20This was frontpaged not even 24 hours ago.
Seriously, when you submit an article, the dupe check HAD to have caught this. - theStig, on 05/10/2008, -0/+13true, there are plenty of other methods to animate.. but how many of them work without downloading a plugin?
- pcx99, on 05/10/2008, -1/+12It's a duplicate ( http://digg.com/programming/Processing_visualizati ... ) and it's inaccurate (it's not ajax it's javascript and canvas). But it is cool so dugg anyway.
- scaaven2, on 05/10/2008, -1/+13this is not ajax. it's animation.
- cvxdes1, on 05/11/2008, -1/+10Why can't we just say Javascript? It's always got to be something else.. Interactive, DHTML, Ajax, or DOM.
"It's all the same, only the names will change" - takua108, on 05/10/2008, -7/+15"Service Temporarily Unavailable; The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
Best. Ajax. Ever. - beatrixkiddo, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6It's interactive. You didn't click on it?
- TheDelta9, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4yea... like yesterday or somthing.... wtf.
- iofthestorm, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5Apparently AJAX is the new DHTML, or something.
- REsplin, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4He dugg the original article and submitted the same one today calling it ajax.
- Hoody28405, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4It depends which route you take - and yes, he is joking.........
- jpinsonault, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5yeah, well as soon as someone makes a animation engine using Ajax, be sure to tell me. Until then, I'll just read about javascript ports of java engines
- specialK16, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5Blocked? Yes
*****. - houndeyex, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5Why not bury it as duplicate or inaccurate? Digging this again is stupid, and it's inaccurate.
- ahawks, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3The point is that it looks like flash, but without flash. That means any web browser capable of properly handling javascript can do this, without the user having flash. For example, safari on the iphone could render this. But if it were done in flash, the iphone couldn't.
- jonvictorino, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3From the look of the link's thumb it looks similar to some of Joshua Davis' art.
- dAbReAkA, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3because Ajax and Ubuntu sound cooler than Javascript and Linux :D
- mstrebe, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Yeah totally. And you should invent the artificial intelligence that makes it possible to detect when different titles, with different articles, link to different blogs that are about the same thing.
- Atomic1fire, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Ajax Animator
http://antimatter15.110mb.com/Animator/
It makes flash animations - motang, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2http://ejohn.org.nyud.net/blog/processingjs/
- crazyjake, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3the digg frontpage is the perfect way to carry out a DOS attack... so easy!!
- Ender10, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2mistergoodburge=dolt. Awesome no?
- visionaryIX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+4Tech? On Digg? What is going on?
- HonoredMule, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Other advantages are low overhead and higher stability (because it's something directly rendered by your browser), no disruption to normal browser interaction/behaviour (as opposed to, for example, Flash replacing the right-click context menu with something completely useless), the ability to save/view any frame as a static image (try right clicking on one of the animated examples and select "view image" for a demonstration of what I mean), and (I believe) the ability to nest other html elements inside the <canvas> element or otherwise allow overlapping of content.
- leec85, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3There are some truly beautiful effects shown in those examples, theres just one big problem. IE does not support the canvas tag natively therefore the masses that do not know there are good browsers out there will not be able to see your work. I would love to implement some very nice effects with the canvas tag however Microsoft continues to hold down the web by not supporting standards and trying to get everyone else to use their *****.
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3Jesus Christ, you stupid ***** troll.
- yingjai, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3digg should prevent reposts of recent articles from reaching frontpage
- Atomic1fire, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4.gif (graphics interchange format)
.apng (animated portable network graphics supported by ff3) - lidong, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2my cpu is burning when playing these script animations....
- blackjack75, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2I don't care if it's a dupe. I digg it because I missed it the first time. If I saw it for the second time I simply would not have dugg it.
- blackjack75, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Maybe one of the demos draws an Obama face? Let's find out.
- theStig, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1good point.
- iericg, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Here's a script from Google's Explorer Canvas project that adds support to IE
http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ - sharpie05, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2yes it was. Awesome job OP
- fLUx1337, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3You better be joking ;)
And please, don't reply, I will assume in my head you are, so the ending really isn't spoilt for me.... - Atomic1fire, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Except it only adds support if the webmaster uses it
Better would be a canvas plugin - rxbudian, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1yep... I forwarded it yesterday to my colleagues.
- jpinsonault, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Touche. Touche indeed. *hands his sarcastic comment trophy over*
- Atomic1fire, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3Javascript + canvas stuff that looks dynamic ≠ ajax
Javascript + xmlhttprequest and the other techniques = ajax - Atomic1fire, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Flash ≠ animation
Just because its animated does not mean its flash
.gifs are not flash Just a bunch of frames put into an image
these javascript animations are just javascript animations
javascript (whats used here) ≠ Actionscript (what it probably would have been used had this been flash) - antiver, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Google already did..
- HonoredMule, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Those are not dynamic though; they're just an explicit sequence of raster frames. Just like Flash, this represents more than mere animation.
- sproutworks, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1I submitted this article http://digg.com/programming/Processing_visualizati ...
When I was submitting, there were already 2 other posts using the exact same link, yet the dupe checker failed to find them. It did find posts with similar keywords. So, I think the dupe checker needs some work. -
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