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Re: Hi, I'm David

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Does it move? I tried clicking on it and nothing seemed to happen.

Use the up/down/left/right arrow keys. It's not very fancy. (Mobile not supported either.)

esheep inspired at all?

I was amused when it dropped from the top and I played around resizing the window to make it fall. Casually dropping "use arrow keys to move cat!" under hobby programming was a lovely way of revealing that and rewarding the reader.

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#32
I wish Apple phones wouldn’t constantly crash when loading WebGL graphics libraries. I’m working in BabylonJS right now, and not only will the page crash on iOS Safari, but there’s no way to debug it. It (frustratingly) runs fine inside of the iPhone Simulator on MacOS, which is the only way I’ve been able to access devtools or crash logs.

And I’ve successfully rendered BabylonJS on iOS in the past, so I know it’s not just me.

I’m working on another website at the moment using pixi.js, and I’m dreading the battle I’ll be facing with Safari.

Does anyone here have advice on how to better deal with WebGL + iOS debugging? OP and I seem to be faced with the same problems…

Re: Hi, I'm David

#33
post #27

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Use the up/down/left/right arrow keys. It's not very fancy. (Mobile not supported either.)

Aww, firefox makes the page scroll with arrow keys :( I'm not sure if I would override that though, maybe have alternate controls like "wasd" or something similar. P.S. I looked at the code for the cat and I really like it. Nice and simple.

Thank you! I made a library out of it (http://yobert.github.io/catify/) if you want to add it to something of yours!

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#34

I wish Apple phones wouldn’t constantly crash when loading WebGL graphics libraries. I’m working in BabylonJS right now, and not only will the page crash on iOS Safari, but there’s no way to debug it. It (frustratingly) runs fine inside of the iPhone Simulator on MacOS, which is the only way I’ve been able to access devtools or crash logs. And I’ve successfully rendered BabylonJS on iOS in the past, so I know it’s no…

Is it a problem with BabylonJS? ThreeJS stuff always works fine for me.

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#35
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use the up/down/left/right arrow keys. It's not very fancy. (Mobile not supported either.)

esheep inspired at all? I was amused when it dropped from the top and I played around resizing the window to make it fall. Casually dropping "use arrow keys to move cat!" under hobby programming was a lovely way of revealing that and rewarding the reader.

Thanks! I've never heard of esheep, but have been inspired by some desktop hacks over the years. (Remember that roach program for windows?) The cat animation was lifted from an old DOS game called Alleycat that I loved.

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#38
O dear I popped the ballon.

But like lazarus, it rises again (with a different message.)

The third one seems indestructible...

very nice.

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#39
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I put an interactive cat on my resume and I'm pretty sure it literally got me the job. ( https://pkunk.org/resume/ ) A little fun goes a long way!

It's really nice, thank you for sharing it!

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#40
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Very nice balloon animation. Rarely do I visit a personal homepage that heats up my laptop.

I dunno, try opening a couple of parallax / animation heavy websites and just stay on them scrolling up and down. I have had the fans revving up from that plenty of times.

They're usually business websites, I find.
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