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Re: Lights

#31

Post by watty » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #29

So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think wh…

I agree - the only impressive thing about this is the technology.

Re: Lights

#32

Post by vlad99 » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 7:55 PM UTC

Linkbait from interscope?

Re: Lights

#33

Post by Hoff » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:01 PM UTC

SnowLprd wrote: post #10

For those on Mac OS X 10.7 with Safari and who are seeing a message saying that your browser doesn't support WebGL, that's only because WebGL isn't enabled by default. You can turn it on by first going to Safari Preferences > Advanced and then checking the box labeled "Show Develop menu in menu bar". Close preferences, and then under the "Develop" menu, choose "Enable WebGL". If you go back to the "Lights" page now,…

The site also works with Safari running 10.6 with WebGL enabled, based on a test with 5.1.1.

Re: Lights

#34

Post by tsunamifury » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:02 PM UTC

FYI, the Bassnectar remix of this song is very good.

Re: Lights

#35

Post by RyanMcGreal » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:18 PM UTC

Not working for me on FF 7.0.1 or Chrome 14.0.835.202 on Windows XP. :(

Re: Lights

#36

Post by jonathanb » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:33 PM UTC

watty wrote: post #31

citricsquid wrote: post #29

So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think wh…

I agree - the only impressive thing about this is the technology.

Even that's debatable.

Re: Lights

#37

Post by nicklovescode » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:35 PM UTC

watty wrote: post #31

citricsquid wrote: post #29

So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think wh…

I agree - the only impressive thing about this is the technology.

I'd say the demo itself is incredible. It only became better when I realized it was WebGL

Re: Lights

#38

Post by sandieman » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:38 PM UTC

anyone know the developer(s) behind this?

Re: Lights

#39

Post by sandieman » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

sandieman wrote: post #38

anyone know the developer(s) behind this?

and to answer my own question: http://helloenjoy.com/ looks like dev team behind it.

Do some other cool work in webgl: http://helloracer.com/webgl/ http://helloenjoy.com/helloflower/

Re: Lights

#40

Post by WalterGR » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #29

So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think wh…

How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking?

Since there's no way to hide these links with uninformative titles, the no-addon solution is to get them to display as "visited". So I click them and then immediately close the tab.

Website owners: Sorry for throwing off your stats.