12 April 2006

11:16am, Wed 12 Apr 06

Boeing Italia website faster than ever

The Boeing Italia site, built from the ground up by Deepend, jets along the internet superskyway faster than a Roman downs her espresso. All the ancillary navigation areas are now in Javascript include files, which once downloaded stay in the client browser’s cache. Among these is the hierarchical pulldown menu, which previously was dragging each page by a couple of kilobytes.

None of these new Javascript includes contains any of the page’s content nor layout, so the page does not fall out of the sky if Javascript is switched off; only some helpful navigation is lost.

For example, the latest news release page comes in at only 15k once all the Javascript include files have been cached after a view of the homepage (12k for the HTML and 3k for the topic thumbnail)—see the page’s speed report. Yes, many other news release pages have one or even two photos, each about 50k, but the visitor is getting all of that data onscreen.

Fasten your safety belts.

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16 February 2006

01:07pm, Thu 16 Feb 06

Vector graphics in Javascript

Walter Zorn’s JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw circles, ellipses (ovals), oblique lines, polylines and polygons (for instance triangles, rectangles) dynamically into a webpage.

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16 February 2006

01:07pm, Thu 16 Feb 06

Control Flash with Javascript using Aflax

With Food Force we integrated Flash with a dynamically content-managed HTML site website, but AFLAX is “a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications” (doesn’t work in Opera and requires Flash 8).

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