BEA
December 3, 2007
Back in July I had the opportunity to code a new homepage for BEA, based on a design they provided. It's been a few months since I delivered it, and it looks like they’ve finally published it.
There are a lot of cool things going on in the JavaScript that help keep the HTML clean and simple. Most notably, there is a simple unordered list in the HTML that lists the Featured Downloads. If Flash Player 8+ is installed, JavaScript will grab all the links in the list, replace the list with a Flash object, and feed the links back to the Flash object. If the user does not have Flash Player 8+ installed, the list stays put, and is styled somewhat similarly to what the Flash object looks like through CSS.
Update: BEA has been acquired by Oracle. Their homepage is saying that BEA.com will no longer be maintained as of December 5, 2008. Most of the meat has been stripped out of the page, however a quick look at the code reveals that what’s left of the page is still using the styles that I wrote.
