Google: Let it snow • Hacker News Board

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by kr1shna » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:04 PM UTC

Enjoyed the defrost button :)

Re: Google: Let it snow

#22

Post by jader201 » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #12

Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?

I'm all for opposition to SOPA, but does this really fit on this discussion?

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by dyun » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

It is so cool!

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by cma » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

wavephorm wrote: post #16

davidpardo wrote: post #7

Doesn't work on the iPad. :(

Google is becoming notorious for not supporting the iPad. I found Google+ to be totally unusable.

It is because the defrost with pointer effect wouldn't work on ipad because that is how you drag

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by ctdonath » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:32 PM UTC

babarock wrote: post #13

Do they announce these things somewhere, or did someone actually input "let it snow" and thought to post it here?

Yeah, different results for different platforms. Tapped the link on my tablet and just got a list of videos of Sinatra singing "Let It Snow". Nice sentiment, but didn't see why it topped HN.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by craigyk » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:33 PM UTC

i found "tilt" accidentally a while back

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by melling » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

est wrote: post #19

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.

Funny, half year back the same bunch of people said the same thing to Flash. Now imagine a world where every banner or sidebar is full of HTML5 canvas animation ads.

Firefox takes one core, while Chrome seems to split it across two cores, with a lower combined CPU utilization. I'm using the Nightly's for both browsers.

With open source technology we get multiple implementations and a lot more people working to improve the technology.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by kalleboo » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:39 PM UTC

cma wrote: post #24

wavephorm wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is becoming notorious for not supporting the iPad. I found Google+ to be totally unusable.

It is because the defrost with pointer effect wouldn't work on ipad because that is how you drag

Defrosting with the cursor didn't work for me in Firefox either, and Firefox used about 2x the CPU that Chrome did.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by ell » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

Why is this on top of Hacker News? What is amazing about this?

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by sp332 » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

memset wrote: post #10

city41 wrote: post #3

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

If you click and drag across the screen, then it will have the effect of doing this with your finger :)

I think that part of the effect only works on chrome. Actually I can't get any of it work work on IE9 on Win7, it just shows regular serach results.

Edit: oh I see, you have to wait for the "Defrost" button to show up before you can "wipe" the frost off. Still doesn't work in IE though :)