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Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by david422 » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

Adding a border makes the snow a bit more visible on a light website:

    border: 1px solid black;

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by mort96 » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 3:58 PM UTC

Retr0id wrote: post #10

Kiala wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The URL is not versioned, so it will break whenever OP makes an update (which is arguably a good thing, but we really need OP to provide us with a versioned URL)

Luckily, your snow effect is not mission-critical. So even without the versioned URL, I'd probably take the trade-offs; the snow effect might disappear, but at least I don't give some random person arbitrary remote code execution permissions on my website.

But yeah, the URL should really be versioned.

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by ksimon » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

graderjs wrote: post #38

Thanks! I added it to https://dosyago.com

Looks perfect :)

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by hugg » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

Nice! I however opted for just downloading the source and referencing it in my project directly, don't trust that link.

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by bearmode » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 4:21 PM UTC

dreamoffire wrote: post #33

Maybe I'm missing a button or something, but I'd expect there to be a snow effects demo on the page you linked

Do you have JS disabled? The linked page has the snow effect on it

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by pupppet » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

warinukraine wrote: post #9

The 90s called, they want their internet back.

I'll take 90s internet over what we have now any day, which is basically a collection of tv stations.

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

#47

Post by ranting-moth » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC

M4v3R wrote: post #28

ranting-moth wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also consider making a replacement for the marquee element for a true nostalgic experience. Or does it still work in modern browsers?

It has been removed from web standards, but at least today it still works both in Chrome and Safari, I just tested. See for yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...

Wow, I never even knew you could scroll upwards or both ways!

Works on Firefox too. I tried adding but (thankfully) that didn't work.

Blinking Marquees were a big thing.

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by joe8756438 » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 5:04 PM UTC

Reminds me of an online party invite [0] I made with a friend back in 2012.

We made a bunch of winter/holiday related libraries (font, snow fall, randomly generated snow-capped mountain scenery and marquee lights border) all constructed from HTML form elements.

The font, based on low-res [1] (with permission), is still available as a library [2]

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20150313003701/http://megazinema...

1. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/lo-res

2. https://github.com/1800joe/LoResForm

Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by aaron695 » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website

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Post by insanitybit » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

Something about this gives me a strong feeling of ambiguous nostalgia, like maybe gaiaonline had this effect when I was 12 or something.