Any idea how they did the graphics? Is it straight photoshop + illustrator or something else?
Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
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#12Very neat design, no question. Kind of the antithesis of the functional web, though. It's like a flash only website without the flash.
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#13I have to admit I was hoping Ben would fall in a open manhole cover towards the bottom of the screen, but alas he did not.
Just shows you can always make improvements, even on something as clever as this ;)
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#14Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO.
Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.
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#15If this is the future of the web count me out.
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#16This is awesome. They could have put the same message in two paragraphs of text and a bullet-point list, and I would have quickly glanced over it and forget it the same minute. Instead, I had a lot of fun reading each point, several times. It's amazing how user experience IS the key.
But still I have no idea what this stuff actually does. Some encryption software? Maybe.
Software to secure your sensitive information on your mobile device from my reading of it. It's obviously aimed at people who aren't interested in implementation details. Wether or not it uses encryption is an implementation detail.
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#17Great. I want it. But what is it and where do I get it?
Under construction and AppStore I assume.
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#18So the fact that people are using HTML5 to do what people were doing with Flash ten years ago is somehow interesting?
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#19So the fact that people are using HTML5 to do what people were doing with Flash ten years ago is somehow interesting?
They’re not using any of the new HTML5 features (except the DOCTYPE). It’s all HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
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#20If this is the future of the web count me out.
That seems a little harsh, he obviously has something interesting as it is on the top spot of HN, although he should have finished the product first.
Coming soon usually elicits the same response,
...yawn... move on.