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Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#11

Post by ZenJosh »

Worth noting - Chrome auto-translates from 'French' to 'English', turns:

  Click anywhere on this page to plant bombs. To blow up other websites, drag and drop this link fontBomb to your favorites bar
into:

  Ctheick hasntherewhere on this phasge to pthehasnt bombs. To btheow up other websites, ofrhasg hasnof ofrop this theink fontBomb to thereour fhasvorites bhasr
which, while hilarious, is probably something you want to check out. Other than that, its a fun little hack, nice job!

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#12

Post by plehoux »

ZenJosh wrote: post #11

Worth noting - Chrome auto-translates from 'French' to 'English', turns: Click anywhere on this page to plant bombs. To blow up other websites, drag and drop this link fontBomb to your favorites bar into: Ctheick hasntherewhere on this phasge to pthehasnt bombs. To btheow up other websites, ofrhasg hasnof ofrop this theink fontBomb to thereour fhasvorites bhasr which, while hilarious, is probably something you want t…

Tks just updated the code with :

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#13

Post by dazbradbury »

Excellent demo and smart implementation! Thanks for sharing.

It's a shame the code can't all fit in the bookmarklet though, rather than having to download an external source (which is subject to change). This is meant as a comment on large bookmarklets generally, rather than fontBomb in particular.

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#14

Post by plehoux »

wickedchicken wrote: post #7

Thanks for making your site wacom-friendly. A lot of sites don't have any denoising for clicks, so if you try to click with a tablet it ends up dragging a tiny amount instead (twitter's lightbox is REALLY BAD in this respect).

It is pretty simple to implement, you increment a variable on 'touchmove' event, and check on 'touchend' if the variable is less then 3. If it is, you can call your click function.

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#15

Post by plehoux »

dazbradbury wrote: post #13

Excellent demo and smart implementation! Thanks for sharing. It's a shame the code can't all fit in the bookmarklet though, rather than having to download an external source (which is subject to change). This is meant as a comment on large bookmarklets generally, rather than fontBomb in particular.

"It's a shame the code can't all fit in the bookmarklet"

I don't understand your problem. Can't you drag and drop the link to your favorites bar?

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#16

Post by gregsadetsky »

plehoux wrote: post #15
dazbradbury wrote: post #13

Excellent demo and smart implementation! Thanks for sharing. It's a shame the code can't all fit in the bookmarklet though, rather than having to download an external source (which is subject to change). This is meant as a comment on large bookmarklets generally, rather than fontBomb in particular.

"It's a shame the code can't all fit in the bookmarklet" I don't understand your problem. Can't you drag and drop the link to your favorites bar?

Perhaps the GP wants to make sure that the code keeps working, regardless of the server's availability, etc...?

dazbradbury -- Host a local copy of http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/js/main.js and you should be good to go :-)

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#17

Post by balloot »

_jb wrote: post #8
alptrv wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, why it so faster in Safari then in Chrome?

I'm kinda sure it has to do with hardware acceleration.

Would totally make sense given it works best in the two browsers most closely tied to the underlying OS.

Re: Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

#18

Post by mrpollo »

plehoux wrote: post #14
wickedchicken wrote: post #7

Thanks for making your site wacom-friendly. A lot of sites don't have any denoising for clicks, so if you try to click with a tablet it ends up dragging a tiny amount instead (twitter's lightbox is REALLY BAD in this respect).

It is pretty simple to implement, you increment a variable on 'touchmove' event, and check on 'touchend' if the variable is less then 3. If it is, you can call your click function.

thanks for that
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