Ajaxian and some explanations

Mercredi 1 novembre 2006 | catégorie: english, français, F.Prod

En envoyant un mail à l’équipe d’ajaxian pour annoncer l’ouverture du site et notamment l’utilisation de technologies dont ils parlent souvent sur leur blog, je ne m’attendais pas à retrouver un post consacré à F.Prod mais le mal est fait et des personnes se sont jetées dessus, voici le petit texte d’explication que j’ai posté sur ajaxian suite aux premières critiques :

Hi there,

Hooo, there has been some misunderstanding : I know what you think : why does he use such effects when a site without effects could have been much more efficient ? I Agree : I didn’t put those effects to make a flashy website, to impress some friends with some picture moving around or some automated scroll…

I maid this site much more like a proof of concept about animating, using some JS and being XHTML 1.0 Strict : look, it’s not a commercial site, there is no ads, no prices, i don’t even sell my own person …

I launched it only 24h ago, I didn’t had time yet to write on the blog to explain how things work and why they are there but my main idea about doing this was to show that
1/ it’s possible to replace flash for animations (index introduction animation)
2/ it’s possible to make some “cool” things like the slideshow on the index, like the dock on videos and web pages
3/ it’s possible to make a site using JS and being XHTML 1.0 Strict and being usable when JS is desactivated, even links which should open in a new window are “accessible”
… I’ll tell more things and show some code on the blog as soon as i can

However, i know i maid some mistakes and maybe you’ll help me to improve things
For ex, I would have never used so much effects on a “real” site, even if the effects are maybe nice, maybe cool

I hope after these explanations you will have another look at this site… and if you don’t, no way I like it