How Display data in asp.net Like www.visualthesaurus.com display Thesaurus

Question

i want to visually display my data on asp.net website as www.visualthesaurus.com display for thesaurus. When the user click on the node then next child node displayed i want to know is this possible in asp.net.....Give me some idea or any api by which we can achieve this functionality in our website.....Some sourcecode also welcome..... Thanks

Answer 1

They have written it in Java.

Asp.net is a server side language and could be used to do the server side code. But thats the easy part.

To do a front end like that using pure html / javascript might be possible if you were very good. I would use JQuery to do the graphics and animation, cos that makes it easy to deal with these tricky areas cross-browser.

You would have to really craft your code to be as optimised as possible to get any sort of performance out of javascript.

Maybe silverlight could do it.. I dont know much about it.