oreillymj Wrote: > Reading through these posts, it was mentioned that Slim should take a > look at meebo.com for an example of floating DIV usage. > > I popped over there for a look and what do I get get. A page requesting > that I create a user id. 4 username/password login dialogs for IM > clients. > > Hmmm, so what exactly does this web-site do??? I'll just give them my > personal details so I can find out, eh no I don't think so. > > This is just 1 of a number of web-sites I've seen, who in their haste > to hop on the Web2.0 bandwagon, couldn't be bothered to explain to the > user what exactly their site is going to provide. > > Oh, but they do include a "About" link to some fluff about the devs > hobbies, bio's etc.. > > The About link is 1 of a number which uses underlined text, so they I > intuitively know they are links, but there is also a non underlined > link called "Join meebo now", which opens a popup explaining what the > site does. > > Sorry but no thanks meebo. Not a shining example of good UI design. And > not a very compelling business model either if you ask me. > But then again, I'm not a dot com millionaire > http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
I was pointing to meebo as a site for internal floating divs. Meebo is a tool for people who can't get to IM servers because of their corporate firewalls or whatever. Basically if you login to, say AIM, it will open a mini chat client in the browser. If you take a sec to try it out, imagine slimserver/softsqueeze working something like this (even imagine a web based winamp or the like). While I think that a lot of the web 2.0 stuff is bleeding edge and half baked (remember when Flash came out and *everything* was in flash?), we're going to see a lot more of it sprinkled here and there. Even Amazon is using it to help provide more useful information to their users. -- goofygrin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ goofygrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4100 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21322 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
