Flex & Ajax in the Wild: Vayama.com Travel Site

Posted At : June 27, 2007 7:57 AM | Posted By : Rey Bango
Related Categories: Adobe,Flex,AJAX

Ajaxian picked up on new travel site Vayama.com which focuses on finding the best fares and schedules for international flights. It has a very cool interface and uses a combination of Ajax and Flex to provide a pretty slick interface. It looks like Flex is primarily used to display an interactive map to show the actual travel route and once you pull up fares, you can actually display multiple routes on the Flex map. Pretty cool!

There's still some quirks that need to be cleaned up such as saving the inputted travel info if you go to another page (oddly, the Flex map retains this when you move to another page).

Overall, its a nicely designed site which seems leverage the best of Ajax & Flex functionality.

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Nope not Flex, Flash. Originally flex but downgraded to flash ;0)

C.

# Posted By Campbell | 6/27/07 10:49 AM

P.S. book a flight and preview your seat, has some cool psuedo 3d flash generated from xml.

# Posted By Campbell | 6/27/07 10:55 AM

Darn thats too bad. I thought that was a cool use of Flex.

# Posted By Rey Bango | 6/27/07 10:57 AM

I wonder why they downgraded to Flash? Maybe they couldn't get Flex working adequately. That would be strange! It may just be some miseducation on their part.
But, sounds like the site worked really well. I'm sure they might be developing it in flex in the background. I suspect it's going to be a big year this year for flex! And Apollo is certainly going to mean the web will change, and the market will begin to change fairly rapidly too, I'm sure!

# Posted By online shopping | 2/21/08 10:05 AM

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