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Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#31

Post by plehoux » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

gregsadetsky wrote: post #29

septerr wrote: post #19

Sweet. I am eager to go through the source code.

The author should release it in its original, CoffeeScript form..! ;-)

Here it is: https://github.com/plehoux/fontBomb/tree/master/src/coffee

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#32

Post by plehoux » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

mozillarewind wrote: post #23

plehoux wrote: post #2

I'm the author, it works best in Safari and IE 9. Use the bookmarklet to destroy any website. Source is here: https://github.com/plehoux/fontBomb/tree/master/src/coffee

In Firefox 13, the explosions don't correspond to the clicked locations/where the bombs are placed.

I'm not using jquery and I had a lot of problems getting the position and offset of click and elements. I guess it still need more work.

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#33

Post by noahlt » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

valgaze wrote: post #24

This is an impressive one as well (basically a big snowball that grows bigger picking up page elements): http://kathack.com/ I've always wondered if these sorts of tools could be a useful gimmick for traffic-generation

Related: this bookmarklet turns the page into a game of Asteroids. http://kickassapp.com/

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#34

Post by eragnew » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 4:56 PM UTC

Didn't watch the movie, but I think the functionality is awesome :)

Would love to see a gallery of what people have come up with.

Is it possible to see source code?

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#35

Post by plehoux » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

balloot wrote: post #17

_jb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm kinda sure it has to do with hardware acceleration.

Would totally make sense given it works best in the two browsers most closely tied to the underlying OS.

I was totally impress by the speed of IE 9 running in a virtualbox instance on my macbook pro. Times they are changing!

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#36

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 5:00 PM UTC

eragnew wrote: post #34

Didn't watch the movie, but I think the functionality is awesome :) Would love to see a gallery of what people have come up with. Is it possible to see source code?

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Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#37

Post by ya3r » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

This things works nicely on the iphone!

Kudos

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#38

Post by Scottopherson » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

eragnew wrote: post #34

Didn't watch the movie, but I think the functionality is awesome :) Would love to see a gallery of what people have come up with. Is it possible to see source code?

http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/js/main.js

https://github.com/plehoux/fontBomb/tree/master/src/coffee

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#39

Post by btipling » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

wickedchicken wrote: post #7

Thanks for making your site wacom-friendly. A lot of sites don't have any denoising for clicks, so if you try to click with a tablet it ends up dragging a tiny amount instead (twitter's lightbox is REALLY BAD in this respect).

Why are you using a wacom tablet to browse the web? Isn't that for drawing?

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#40

Post by stan_rogers » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #39

wickedchicken wrote: post #7

Thanks for making your site wacom-friendly. A lot of sites don't have any denoising for clicks, so if you try to click with a tablet it ends up dragging a tiny amount instead (twitter's lightbox is REALLY BAD in this respect).

Why are you using a wacom tablet to browse the web? Isn't that for drawing?

Once you go absolute-position, it's hard to go back. With a mouse, you need to be aware of where the cursor is; with a tablet you just need to know where you want it to be.