UPDATE:
- Feb 22: Check out this video about the design and technology behind the Vancouver Winter Olympics website
The Vancouver Winter Olympics start tomorrow (Feb 12, 2010) and JavaFX is the official rich client technology of the 2010 Winter Games.
The “Medal Wheel”, already available on the site, is a JavaFX application that allows you to explore medal results in a unique and very visual way, from the Vancouver Winter Olympics all the way back to Chamonix 1924.
Another JavaFX-based widget, the “Results Ticker”, which allows sports fans to follow real-time medal results, will be available at the start of the event tomorrow.
Check out the application (very cool!) and read more out it in the press release.
Cheers,
– Terrence
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02/11/2010 at 13:51
fg
Cool!
(well at least that was some months ago).
Too bad that I did not yet have time (and use) to do some JavaFX.
Also too bad that coupling with Swing is not too fine
02/11/2010 at 22:02
Francis Adu-Gyamfi
Nice application. I personally do not have use for that particular app (olympics ain’t ma thing), but it certainly is a great looking application.
Great way to get the JavaFX message out.
02/12/2010 at 11:27
lonny27
Yes, the application looks nice.
It seems that it was programmed in the US, because the creators did not consider the high density of countries in central Europe. eg. you can find Greece at the south border of Egypt, Switzerland is north west of Germany. Only two of the many errors.
A typical showcase for “looks great” but does not even fulfill very basic requirement of finding a country at its geographical location.
I know it’s hard to believe for US citizens, but the world does not end at the US borders
02/26/2010 at 21:16
Patrick Julien
I don’t think this is cool unfortunately due to the dialogs that show up. The first dialog that shows up is one asking me to grant the JavaFX installer applet permission to the file system. That’s one dialog, and I guess it would be hard to get rid of that one until JavaFX is more widely deployed via the jre.
The second one asks me if I accept the JavaFX license. I don’t mean to be condescending here but this is nuts. If you want to compete with flash for ads and its other uses, like using it for things that the HTML 5 canvas can’t do like 3D, it has to be more transparent to the end user.
03/01/2010 at 07:10
Maxine
This is a very nice application. Thanks for posting it!