Awesome. Doesn't seem to work on Gmail.
Interesting, it does work on the "basic HTML" version of Gmail. For me it seems like the "keyboard shortcut" functionality gets in the way of controller the "ship"
Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
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Re: Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
#72I'm surprised no one has commented on the security issue about the bookmarklet allowing javascript to be placed/executed on any website... I can see the next wave of session hijacking in the making. Your DOM is not safe ;]
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#73Holy crap, I had an extremely similar idea last month for a bookmarklet that let you machine gun and blow up pages. In fact, it's sitting half complete in a projects folder. Erkie, get out of my head!!!! At least it's open source, so I guess I can fork it and add in my ideas.
Don't feel bad - this idea is pretty old. A program called "Desktop Toys" from the Win95 era comes to mind, and there are probably more examples.
Actually, my memory of Desktop Toys is what was basing it on :)
I didn't realize it was that popular.
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#74Got 4880 points for blowing up current HN new links.
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#75yahoo was a great site to play on. endless targets.
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#76Awesome. Now someone needs to combine it with websockets/node.js (or similar) so I can see the other players on the same page!
Exactly what you wanted: http://realitymachine.net/asteroids.html And the HN article, if you want to drum up some more players: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1738543 I hacked together a very (very) basic multiplayer with a paper-thin node.js server in coffeescript. Yes, really: http://github.com/cushman/asteroids.js It might deserve a newspost of its own, but I'd like to have a working server running so people…
So who is up for a shootout on HN? Or were do the asteroiders hang out?
Maybe something like Twitter, where new stuff to shoot appears on a constant basis?
Re: Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
#77Try it on John Gruber's Daring Fireball. Everything collapses quite nicely and it's fun to start at the top and then shoot everything as you go down!