Today I talk a bit about the tech I want to use for Arcadius. This application is almost 99% client side. Meaning if you went offline, you’d still be able to use this site pretty much the same way, although you’d not get feeds or be able to launch games. That being said, I dont expect too many folks to actually use this offline, so I’m looking at using a CDN-based javascript library for the core functionality. I’ve worked with both YUI and jQuery, and while I really like jQuery’s simplicity of syntax, I’m leaning more toward YUI right now. I’m also looking at using something called Alloy UI, as it’s YUI-based, and has some functionality I’d like to use. I’m also going to try out the Facebook javascript SDK, as it’s supposed to be really easy and handy to use.

So here are some links:
http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/
http://www.alloyui.com/
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/JavaScript_SDK_%28Open_Source%29

YUI also has some attractive plugins for things like localStorage, which is one of the things I’m hoping to use.

So, now I have the goals, the tech, and tomorrow we can talk a little about the UI.