Gap Inc. is AJAX-licious
Monday October 3, 2005
This is about a month late, but I didn’t have a need to visit gap.com until last week, only to find that their site had been completely overhauled.
No more tables. They’ve gone CSS and XHTML (Strict none the less) friendly, and little bits of AJAX are sprinkled about to make things very user-friendly. There isn’t anything all that groundbreaking about what they’re using; what’s worth getting excited over is the fact that a big company is willing to take the risk and use some very new and innovative technology which is very much going against the norm of most big sites on the web.
Check out the “Quicklook” feature in the product listings, and the way that size and color availability is shown with a quick hover. Job well done.
A couple of more in-depth reviews of the site at Speak Up > To Shop or Not To Shop and every breath death defying: Gap.com’s new, innovative QuickLook widgets
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