New Prototype Application
Just uploaded a new demo of an application my Mom thought of. She showed me this shockwave application that allows students to drag unfamiliar words to a “notepad” on the side of the screen and later print them out. She was hoping there was a way to “borrow” this funtionality and use it with her own content for her class. But since it was done as one big, ugly, clunky shockwave (not even Flash) app that took me 5 minutes to download, there was no chance.
Enter Web 2.0. What we used to call DHTML, and now can just call html, has developed to the point where implementing nice interfaces over the web is a snap. In this case, I used the excellent javascript library Script.aculo.us for its Drag and Drop objects. I implemented the same functionality found in that shocking shockwave app in minutes.
I plan to add a bit of php to allow people to upload their own stories and get their own URL. Check out the prototype now: