Me, Mouse and Mind [ Rags ]

WEB 2.0 Concept

Continue to my previous post about WEB 2.0



To recognize your site fall into web 2.0, check the below points:

web 2.0 is not a technology, a set of characteristics

A sites that replace desktop applications

target the Long Tail => more about long tail?

value generated by user participation

emergent structures =>read more...

openness

If your design (backend and UI) takes care any of the 3 steps you are near to track.





cheers!

about WEB 2.0

Nowdays web 2.0 standard is becoming more popular jargon among site designers. Some of my friends are keep asking me to verify their sites with web 2.0 standard.






Today I have come across sitepoint article about web.20. If you didn't come across! here is the link for you




http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/10/13/web-20-is-about/




I got some more useful links from one of my mentor recently



Web 2 Style Guide


http://f6design.com/journal/2006/10/21/the-visual-design-of-web-20/



Web 2 Wiki Guide



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

FLASH and Ruby on Rails

I found one more easier way to communicate with back end system with client using ruby on rails and flash when I was working with one of my rubystar guy. Now one more way of ajaxing easily.


And I cannot forget to tell about SWFObject which is one of the great tool make flash developers life easier. This javascript piece of code in HTML helped me to communicate with flash variables and serverside data (like Rails objects) without diving into the my bulk of my code. If you are not using it then you are tring to makes your complicated.

<div id="myFlash"> Some text for google serach engine </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
   var currentTime = new Date(); 
    // this is avoid catching when append with flash files
   var filePath = "/myFlash.swf?"+currentTime.getSeconds();
   var foo= new SWFObject(filePath, "tutor", "683", "400", "8");
   foo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
   foo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "all");     
   foo.addVaraible("flash Variable", "<%= variable %>" ) 
   //your flash variable will updated with ruby variable
   foo.write("myFlash");
 </script>

IE7 is getting developer friendly

I have been designing in IE 6 and firefox for long time. I was stuckup in many places with IE6 positioning system. I dont want to hack much of css to make it work in both browsers.


Thanks to MSFT IE7 which is almost comes in handy in look and feel as well as rendering the standards. Now my life made simpler with IE7 and FF which works well with my exciting css.

I have added sample conditional comments to separate between IE version:

<!--[if gte IE 6]>
    <link href="styleIE7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 <![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <link href="styleIE6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
 <!--[if !IE]><!-->
    <link href="styleFireFox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--<![endif]-->