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Use AJAX to filter Kayak's employees

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That's really cool and creative. Nice find.

OP: I really hate to be this guy, but the page doesn't use AJAX, just Javascript. You may want to update the headline.

My apologies, you are right, there's nothing asynchronous. It's all pre-loaded.

Heh. At first, I felt bad for all the people on the low end of the hotness scale, but it's actually randomly generated on load. If you reload, everyone has a different hotness level.

This reminds of Picker from the Simile project (http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Picker)

And just to nitpick, there aren't any asynchronous calls going on! The data is all pre-loaded.

I simply love this. It nicely riffs on their innovative UI. It's also just a fun way to display their management team -- much better than just boring photos and bios. Great branding.

Agreed. Every time Kayak paddles into my consciousness I end up with a sense that those people are just doing something right.

Does anyone understand what the Left-Right slider does? My first guess - left-handedness versus right-handedness - isn't consistent with the slider usage.

It seems to be what side of the picture the person is in. (I thought it was left/right handedness too at first, and was curious how one could be 30% left handed!)

Politics?

The capitalists bunch as a whole are a more attractive group then the nerds.

I did not understand the hotness portion as it ranks an older heavy set guy as the only 10. Usually, not what our society would rank a 10. The blonde chick sure.

It's random.

it breaks for me in chrome - when you move both sliders all the way to the left it won't let you drag anything right again. 'show all' restores it so it's probably just an overlap issue.

Happens for me in Firefox too.

Wow... imagine being one of the hotness=2 guys. On further investigation, the hotness seems semi-random.

love that the CEO has the lowest MPG.

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