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Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#31

Post by seejay » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:13 PM UTC

Am I the only one who feels like this guy is just a troll???

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#32

Post by rimantas » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:20 PM UTC

My rought take (sure, I cheated a bit with a background too):

http://kod.as/lab/button/

Safari and Chrome.

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#33

Post by moxiemk1 » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

Encosia wrote: post #6

Well, that shouldn't be very hard to reproduce: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/do-that-in-html5-fail.png

Since I'm using an iPad at the moment, I was similarly spared from seeing what this button looked like.

That is, until people rose to his challenge. :(

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#34

Post by jordan0day » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:28 PM UTC

White_N_Nerdy wrote: post #17

psadauskas wrote: post #9

No, I don't believe I will. I'd rather my users know the button is a button, and will behave like they expect, all without taking up 50% of my CPU... (Aside: I went back to the page to double-check CPU usage, and the button wasn't working this time. Yup, behold the awesome power of flash!)

I have seen many HTML5 demos that have taken up 50% or more of my CPU. So, what's the difference?

I think psadauskas' point was that a shiny button isn't a good benchmark for a flash vs. html5 comparison. Or at least that they don't think that shiny buttons make a lot of sense.

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#35

Post by jordan0day » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:29 PM UTC

peti wrote: post #12

hnal943 wrote: post #2

So... the point is that HTML5 can't make annoying buttons with poor usability?

Annoying? Poor usability? It looks like a button, reacts on mouseovers, and would totally fit in some game's website. Besides, it is not the point here.

My thoughts too. While that might be a silly button to have for many sites, it looks like something I've seen in more than one video game menu. So, it's not without merit.

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#36

Post by zackola » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 5:36 PM UTC

jherdman wrote: post #7

zackola wrote: post #3

That is the ugliest button I've ever seen on the internet.

I take it this means you weren't around for The Dark Ages? The time when animated GIFs ran amuck, standards were wept for acceptance, and the kingdom of Geocities was strong?

I was around for The Dark Ages for sure, and even including everything there, this button is worse. I'd even prefer a Java applet mirror reflection button to this thing.

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#37

Post by FreakCERS » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 9:54 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #23

Someone on Reddit did it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/db37b/ha_do_tha...

Someone else at reddit (me) did it better: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/db37b/ha_do_tha...

Re: Ha Do That in HTML5

#38

Post by confuzatron » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 11:23 PM UTC

seejay wrote: post #30

steveklabnik wrote: post #23

Someone on Reddit did it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/db37b/ha_do_tha...

Yup! guess it's time to eat his old Flash disks LOL!

He should have stipulated that the HTML5 version must have smooth animation, like the Flash version.