Look What AJAX Can Do – Sproutliner
Sproutliner is an excellent example of the type of work you can do with AJAX related technologies. It is a web based outlining application that can be used to manage complex lists of tasks or to organize your thoughts and ideas. It is completely customizable and while using it, I couldn’t help thinking how close it resembles a great Mac product called OmniOutliner – both in its simplicity and customizability.
Although still in beta, it does show one drawback of AJAX (and probably more specifically DOM) development. It works fine on Firefox (Mac & PC) and Internet Explorer 6.0 (PC) but is still a bit of a mess on other browsers. From my recent experience working with these technologies, these challenges aren’t insurmountable, but it certainly can add time to your development process.
its pretty neat; and I think it has a bunch of potential.
but you can see why it is in “beta” still as there are some pretty major usability issues.
for instance, in Firefox if you are typing then change your mind and hold down the “backspace” key to delete everything in the box – suddenly I ended up losing focus from the box and going back in my navigation history.
and it wasn’t very obvious how to make sub-items either.
That just motives me to (find sometime and) create something AJAX. :)
Nice job and I agree with Bill’s comment about bunch of potential.