Comments on: 3-D Javascript http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/ web apps, programming talk, and random thoughts Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: patorjk http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/comment-page-1/#comment-2211 patorjk Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:03:29 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/#comment-2211 Hrm, up and down scrolling with the mouse could be a little tricky from an interface's perspective. I'd have to figure out if I'd want it to make the pictures scroll around the x-axis or if I'd want it to cause them to tilt their rotation on the z-axis. If I did the former, and then set the images up as if they rested on the surface of a sphere, it'd probably work out pretty well. I'd need a lot of images for this type of set up though. Hrm, up and down scrolling with the mouse could be a little tricky from an interface’s perspective. I’d have to figure out if I’d want it to make the pictures scroll around the x-axis or if I’d want it to cause them to tilt their rotation on the z-axis. If I did the former, and then set the images up as if they rested on the surface of a sphere, it’d probably work out pretty well. I’d need a lot of images for this type of set up though.

]]> By: Dave http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/comment-page-1/#comment-2193 Dave Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:51:39 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/#comment-2193 Very Well done. I haven't had time to play with AJAX much but this is great. Next step should be Omni-Directional scrolling. I.E. any direction would be valid to cause a 3D spin; up, down, bottom left, etc. Very Well done. I haven’t had time to play with AJAX much but this is great. Next step should be Omni-Directional scrolling. I.E. any direction would be valid to cause a 3D spin; up, down, bottom left, etc.

]]> By: patorjk http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 patorjk Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:38:59 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/#comment-2175 hey Sloat! Cool to see you have a new site. I noticed that your old one disappeared a while ago and I wasn't sure what happened. As far as Flash and Javascript go, I've always been under the impression that more people have Javascript enabled than have the Flash plug-in, but that may have changed in the past few years. I haven't done any real Flash development in about 2-3 years. There were several things that annoyed me about Flash when I was working with it though, all of which seem to escape me now, but it really seemed like it was made without software developers in mind as its main audience. It's strange that IE would give so many complaints about Javascript. Everything I keep reading says it's going to be the next big language. hey Sloat! Cool to see you have a new site. I noticed that your old one disappeared a while ago and I wasn’t sure what happened.

As far as Flash and Javascript go, I’ve always been under the impression that more people have Javascript enabled than have the Flash plug-in, but that may have changed in the past few years. I haven’t done any real Flash development in about 2-3 years. There were several things that annoyed me about Flash when I was working with it though, all of which seem to escape me now, but it really seemed like it was made without software developers in mind as its main audience. It’s strange that IE would give so many complaints about Javascript. Everything I keep reading says it’s going to be the next big language.

]]> By: sloat http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/comment-page-1/#comment-2170 sloat Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:10:04 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/17/3-d-javascript/#comment-2170 I don't think Flash is any more or less practical than Javascript when it comes to interfaces. I think both are pretty irritating. Flash requires a plugin (which most people already have), but Javascript can be easily disabled. Just for a little anectdote: my box at work runs Vista and IE absolutely hates running JS. It could have been the way it was set up by Dell, but I get that yellow "need permission" bar nearly everytime I do something in Javascript (especially if I'm doing DOM-modifying stuff, it seems). Anyway, there are a lot of emerging technologies in the web programming arena. Stuff like Silverlight and JS libraries like YUI, jQuery, etc. I don’t think Flash is any more or less practical than Javascript when it comes to interfaces. I think both are pretty irritating.

Flash requires a plugin (which most people already have), but Javascript can be easily disabled. Just for a little anectdote: my box at work runs Vista and IE absolutely hates running JS. It could have been the way it was set up by Dell, but I get that yellow “need permission” bar nearly everytime I do something in Javascript (especially if I’m doing DOM-modifying stuff, it seems).

Anyway, there are a lot of emerging technologies in the web programming arena. Stuff like Silverlight and JS libraries like YUI, jQuery, etc.

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