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ItalianoThe Freedoms Chooser DHTML Challenge From Creative Commons… Done!
Creative Commons introduced a few days ago a new version of their experimental license chooser.
The problem was, they rewrote it in Flash and challenged the DHTML wizards out there to do the same in DHTML.
Not that I (Sylvain) consider myself a wizard, but I decided to spend a couple of hours to give it a try ;-) Maybe we’ll make it available on Jamendo to select licenses, what do you think?
Anyway, here is the demo, you can check the source, I tried to comment it a bit more than usual!
March 1st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Sylvain, you may not consider yourself a wizard, but the rest of us are starting to look for a pointy hat, a wand, and a dusty spellbook when you update the site.
If not a wizard, certainly a magician.
Are the color codes green for permissions and red for restrictions?
March 1st, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Works good - DHTML is much better than Flash and a very interesting technology.
If you want a tip or two those would be: Some image preloading if you haven’t got that yet. Now it takes some milliseconds before the license-picture appears the first time you choose it.
Another tip would be to maybe animate the ovement of the puzzlepieces and that way make the movement appear more natural perhaps.
Good work though! Looks and works exactly the same as the Flash thing!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
thanks for your comments :)
@bmccosar: yes!
@Pelle: good ideas, I’ll pass them to the CC team!
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
If you need help with the translation of the code to Spanish, I will be enchanted to help.
Thanks to improve jamendo day to day.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
That is very nice. Well done! I completely agree that DHTML is better than Flash, because it doesn’t use proprietary formats. A lot of stuff made with Flash doesn’t work with free (as in freedom) software, but Gnash seems to be making quite a lot of progress.