I have to agree with Alexandre. It's a nice demonstration of skill, but pasting hundreds of lines of code in boxes is not exactly 'teaching'. I bet most beginners would get lost pretty quickly with the code and end up just copy/pasting it. And for intermediate/ advanced JS programmers this isn't very useful, as it is just a background with some drag & drop funcionality.
Before you say that "it's just the start" I'll have to point out that, despite it's simplicity, there are already many flaws: - the text below the icons is selectable (and gets selected on double click) - same goes for 'start' and the clock - cursor for dragging is a 'text selection' cursor - with just a little fiddling with the icons you'll get unrequested copies of them sitting around from failed drag&drop operations - you can drag icons off screen and lose them forever - icons can overlap and have an arbitrary z-index which you can't control or reorganize This is just *so* far from something functional and useful that the "tutorial" title can be considered misleading. However it's a very nice demonstration of how jQuery makes it very easy to mock up something that looks and reacts (at first look) pretty much like an OS GUI. Sorry if I'm being harsh, but everyone is entitled to an opinion :] - ricardo On Dec 16, 6:05 pm, "Alexandre Plennevaux" <aplennev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rick, I read the tutorial in its entirety before commenting. This > document lacks structure and not only that, I could have pointed the > many english mistakes, because obviously this was written quite fast, > and i'm sure with a little more care and some more mindset framing, it > should be perfect. I don't know what you consider a tutorial, but as > for me, a tutorial means something meant to teach. In this document, > adam shows obvious skills, but does not teach, hence i'd call this a > demo. > I meant to be constructive because he shows a lot of enthusiasm and > that's his strength. But telling him this "tutorial" is perfect won't > help him improve, nor the jquery community as a whole. > > hope this helps clarify my comments. > > Best, > > Alexandre > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Rick Faircloth > > <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > > > Just take it on face value... did you even look at it? > > It's obviously an operating system interface. And, yes, > > this is Part 1 of a series, he stated. You don't have to > > know everything right away to appreciate what's already been done! > > > Rick > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > >> Behalf Of donb > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:22 PM > >> To: jQuery (English) > >> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Creating an OS Web Interface in jQuery (Part I) > > >> I may seem a bit dense, but what's the objective here? And is 'OS' > >> Operating System, Open Source, something else? Maybe Part 2 clears > >> all this up, but some intro/background would help a lot. > > >> On Dec 16, 7:57 am, AdrianMG <yens...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Finally here you have the First Part of this series of tutorials to > >> > recreate an OS Web Interface with our lovely jQuery javascript > >> > library. > > >> > Here you have the link guys, I hope you can use it for your personal > >> > projects: > > >> >http://yensdesign.com/2008/12/creating-an-os-web-interface-in-jquery-...
