I’m not sure exactly what this is or what state of development it’s in, but it’s just one of those applications that after viewing the walkthrough screencast for a shopping cart checkout system that make you go hmmmm…
Allurent Products demo.
It looks to use ajax, and possibly the whole thing is done in flash rather than javascript, not exactly sure.
But it sure gets you to thinking about rich applications and ecommerce in particular.
The little accordion menu shopping cart towards the end of the movie, looks pretty useful as far as design goes.
I suppose the continual animation of the products loading could become annoying after not too long at all.
This was linked in the Adobe Edge newsletter, is where I noticed it.