Hi Sitepoint,
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on what [technologies] are being used for these flashy, enterprise-level applications and UI experiences. For example: Amazon WS, harvestapp, blist, sprout, 5pm project mgmt, google apps, etc.
Are these UI’s just xhtml over a jquery ui (or similar)?
Yep, it’s usually HTML and a javascript framework. Or, sometimes.
If you look at the page’s source, you can see what library it’s linked to.
Or, There is a firefox extension that detects the framework libraries in use and shows the results in the status bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10083/
Sometimes, flash is integrated into the app in certain places (for instance, google maps’ street view is flash)
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