Warning: audio
OH, is that what it was. My mistake for having the sound muted I supposed.
Elevator.js (2015)
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Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#72The Factorio blog [1] does a similarly fun thing with it's return to top functionality. It's a fun little easter egg. Hint: rockets go up [1] https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367
I regret that I could only do it once.
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#73(2015) unless there's something new here
Lots of previous somewhat recent discussion:
2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623470
7 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
We only like audio or video on a page when the point of the page is audio or video. Youtube. Conference slides. Podcasts. And even then I have a bad habit, in part due to multiple monitors, of trying to mix tabs and windows and sometimes I cannot for the life of me locate the tab that is playing when someone needs me for something. I may need a new rule about where such tabs need to live (separate window, one monitor…
then you have messaging apps that need to make notifications and they can't. The way google blocks audio at this point is not good.
What would be nice is to be able to grant temporary notifications. Probably 20% of the time I'm not keen on granting permanent rights to some web page to ping me but I might be okay with doing so until I close the tab or the browser restarts.
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#75Many comments on the previous discussions: June 2020 (313 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623470 April 2015 (66 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993
Right you are. Macroexpanded:
Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623470 - June 2020 (313 comments)
ElevatorJS – Scroll to top the old-fashion way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048610 - May 2018 (1 comment)
Finally, a “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446389 - April 2015 (10 comments)
Elevator.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993 - April 2015 (66 comments)
(Reposts are ok after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#76Quoted post unavailable.
Please don't attack others. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
Perhaps you don't owe websites that play audio better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#77Most excellent, but the music needs to fade-in and the ride should end with a ding.
It does end with a ding
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
On iOS, tap the top of the screen to automatically scroll to the top.
There's usually some combination of the Home key that does the same on most desktop browsers, but the control key varies by OS and sometimes browser. What there isn't on iOS as far as I'm aware is a way to scroll to the bottom. On infinite scroll pages accidentally navigating away as one can easily do with touch screen results in a lot of frustration.
How do you scroll to the bottom of an infinite page?
Re: Elevator.js (2015)
#79A very cute bit of coding. But: I've always wondered who uses these "back to the top" buttons, and why? Until quite recently I hardly ever had reason to go back to the top of the page—I was much more likely to click a link or click the back button—and if I did a quick tap of the home key or flick of the touchscreen usually did the trick. Conveniently, both gestures work even if you've not gotten all the way down to t…
Yeah, in the days where fixed nav at top is often used by default it is not as common to have TOP links any more. Recently I searched for a way to PREVENT going to the top clicking a link that only had JavaScript in it and always jumped back and forth due to AJAX page reload. The solution[1] I found was using A no jump link . [1] https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/#no-jum...
On a slight tangent, links should not be used as buttons - please use a HTML button and style it with css. Links-as-buttons tend to interact poorly with things like opening in new tabs, and it's not the semantically correct use of the element anyway.
> If clicking the link without javascript doesn't do anything without Javascript, it should be a `button`
https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-guide-to-links-and-buttons...
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe: https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html https://www.kickscondor.com http://tetrageddon.com/ wild net art projects
kickstcondor has a cool art style, but from my understanding it isn't exactly a personal site, given it's run by multiple people pretending to be a single person, who actually are doing this for work at Meta / Facebook: https://usesthis.com/interviews/kicks.condor/ I hadn't heard of some of these other ones, and they look cool, thanks for sharing!
"We're on YouTube a lot. But of course. The modern container for personalities. A lot of our characters are blended from vlogs and streams. For whatever reason, we pull a lot from the amateur cigar-smoking community."
One cue that it was a joke is that the "multiple people" are supposedly a brother and sister pair named "Cody" and "Jody". Also the quote above. Also "Jody: We both use a lot of VR to interact with the different people we come out with."
So, again, this is not saying that the kickscondor.com website is run by two Facebook employees, it is explicitly saying that "Cody" and "Jody" have created a fictional personality who has done all the blogging that refers to a single person's life, and that that's kicks condor, and that it's pulled from the amateur cigar-smoking community, and that they interact with him in VR. And also they like Segway shoes.
Were that not enough to cue one that it was Maybe Not To Be Taken Literally, the interview with the "claim" to being from Facebook was preceded by a LARPy revamp of the website where it was all supposed to be sentient Disney IP run amok, and there was a hidden puzzle game (and telnet BBS, the thing was genius), and you could also email completed mazes to a particular address, and then another revamp had the whole thing "seized by the FBI", with police lights and noises...