When I woke up this morning I had an email about the new Google Finance site, and I must say I’m pretty impressed. The best part? They make heavy use of Flash and AJAX. The charting is all Flash, and it looks like the news items on the left, which automatically shift depending on your date range, are done in AJAX.
John Battell seems to be the first to have broken the story but there’s a lot of opinion over at tech.memeorandum.com. TechCrunch notes the use of Flash, but laments the slowness (everyone is hitting the site right now Mike, give it time). Om seems disappointed, but not because of the Flash part.
Overall I think it’s an awesome user experience and the Flash/AJAX combo shows exactly how the two technologies can cooperate to create cool Rich Internet Applications. Props to Google.
TweetRelated posts: