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Some of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool ( http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html ), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a first-use help screen, and even then, it's disconcerting.
It's useful for videos to minimize page clutter when you're not watching full screen. Hulu does a similar effect when you hit "Lower Lights" next to a playing video.
Some of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool ( http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html ), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a first-use help screen, and even then, it's disconcerting.
I dunno, combine it with a little animation on the element and you got yourself a nice little lightbox.
So, this is different from jQuery UI?
So, this is different from jQuery UI?
They specifically refer to the basic JQuery UI elements when they state, under "Essential tools for modern websites" Let's face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizables, selectables or sortable tables in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different. What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, smooth navigation, great visual effects and all those "web 2.0"…
Do they list any advantage for using Flashembed over SWFObject? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Some of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool ( http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html ), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a first-use help screen, and even then, it's disconcerting.
It's useful for videos to minimize page clutter when you're not watching full screen. Hulu does a similar effect when you hit "Lower Lights" next to a playing video.
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I dunno, combine it with a little animation on the element and you got yourself a nice little lightbox.
...that doesn't behave like any other lightbox anywhere. This Expose tool is just flat-out bad UI; it emphasizes something, makes the user guess how to deemphasize it, and isn't visibly for anything.