Friday, September 26th, 2008
Gravity: Some real Friday fun
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Eric Seidel normally spends his time building browsers, but he has a fun little bit of JavaScript code to show us this time. Gravity was inspired by the Flash Wii Ad that has been going around that uses Flash to explode out of the page.
The bookmarklet takes your form elements and images and starts doing the same thing to them, but uses normal browser manipulation and Canvas to do its magic, as well as the Box 2d physics engine.
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1.7 rating from 118 votes
I can’t get it to run, any suggestions?
Requires Safari. There goes my Friday fun!
Ha, my friend just shutdown his laptop as he thought it was a virus. Brilliant.
:D
This was AWESOME :)
What’s with the bad raing….?
It might require watching the whole thing (45 seconds) and even maybe several times before noticing the brilliance :)
Way cool!!
No mention of Safari requirement -> waste of my time + waste of subject’s bandwidth => bad rating.
The worst thing is that it actually works perfectly in recent Firefox nightly… you simply have to replace webkitTransform with MozTransform in import.js and define console.log, that’s it… even without JIT, I have yet to see it stuttering only the slightest bit in today’s nightly.
Works on Chrome, fun :)
S.Clay, sure it’s mentioned you need Safari. Read!
For those that enjoyed the Wii YouTube video, there’s also the Homestarrunner 404 page: http://www.homestarrunner.com/systemisdown.html