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Re: Nissan Leaf

#11

Post by ck2 »

Hmm flashblock is triggered for some reason but works anyway.

Those menus are rather distracting and complicated for an average consumer site.

ps. OT but the "Leaf" is not available in green ???

Re: Nissan Leaf

#12

Post by pacomerh »

ThomPete wrote: post #9

Until it's possible to do audiotool.com you are not even close to be able to replace flash

Absolutely, Audiotool is amazing. I really like what they did with the nissan site, but you can still see that it doesn't flow as smooth as flash.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#13

Post by eli_s »

ziadbc wrote: post #2

Anybody have an idea on how this was done? Javascript by hand?

svg. doc is similar to html (nodes in a tree structure) and it can be scripted(js). Animation scripted by hand or using an external lib like jq.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#14

Post by daniel02216 »

Their feedback form doesn't work in Safari. The site feels like a Flash site, but doesn't use flash, which is nice!

It also works on my iPad. The 360 is a bit slow but it's there.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#15

Post by Klonoar »

ck2 wrote: post #11

Hmm flashblock is triggered for some reason but works anyway. Those menus are rather distracting and complicated for an average consumer site. ps. OT but the "Leaf" is not available in green ???

Flashblock might be triggered due to SoundManager 2.

Which is funny, considering in many cases it's probably Flash handling the audio for this, and thus the title is inaccurate.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#16

Post by Skroob »

Nice and all, but the scroll bars don't work on the iPad, nor is there a way to scroll the tag list on the left. A step in the right direction though.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#17

Post by TeHCrAzY »

ThomPete wrote: post #9

Until it's possible to do audiotool.com you are not even close to be able to replace flash

The only thing you (likely) cant achieve with plain old html + javascript there is if the Flash is actually editing the audio itself (and is not just getting a server to do it).

I don't think thats a very common requirement: there are other, much more straight forward barriers to replacing flash with html + js, such as lack of dev/designer skills (ie. number of people whom can do that in flash vs whom can do it in html + js).

Re: Nissan Leaf

#18

Post by trustfundbaby »

Johngibb wrote: post #4

Very cool, but I'm not sure creating a site that looks JUST like a flash site is really the right direction... ;)

You've got to convince the masses, that you can do Flash ... without flash first, before you can get them to stop using flash.

Re: Nissan Leaf

#19

Post by citricsquid »

I don't understand how we've gone from "Flash is crap for entire websites" (edit: which is almost always true) to "Flash is the devil in every situation". It has its place, Javascript will never and shouldn't try and "kill" Flash, they're different.
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