This is the best thing I've ever seen on Hackernews.
Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
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Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#32This is very cute and all but... you know... don't actually do this! Please. Even if you make it so that it doesn't break the back button or history, URLs are things that people copy and paste and send to people. They are put into Word-documents, bookmarks and archive.org. It's not a place for dynamic animations. URLs should be static, simple, and as short as is reasonable.
Would you approve animating the title?
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#33An alternative to this is changing document.title, which makes the animation a lot easier to see in Safari (plus it doesn't kill the back button) :)
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#34Company checks on Employee's search history So what's so interesting about matthewrayfield.com that you had to go there 59,000 times in the last hour?
I'm sure when they see the website for themselves they'd agree with you ;)
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#35Thanks, I hate it.
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#36Am I the only one thinking about buying many domain names to do the animation on the actual TLD ?
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#37Cool! It did however completely break my back button....
Somewhat fixable (this is for moon.html):
var n = 0;
function loop() {
location.hash = f[Math.floor((Date.now()/100)%f.length)];
if (n++ > f.length) {
n = 0;
window.history.go(-f.length);
}
setTimeout(loop, 50);
}
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#38This reminds me of putting marquees in the window.status like 20 years ago
The spirit is there definitely.
My take is that it's only a matter of time before emojis creep into every area where text is used.
Let's hope they won't ever become a mainstream part of programming languages.
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#39Company checks on Employee's search history So what's so interesting about matthewrayfield.com that you had to go there 59,000 times in the last hour?
Updating the hash of a URL doesn't (or shouldn't) make a request to the server, so your abstract employee hero is safe.
Re: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
#40Company checks on Employee's search history So what's so interesting about matthewrayfield.com that you had to go there 59,000 times in the last hour?
Just checking to see if you trust me boss ;)