Running Pong in 240 browser tabs

Post by adamgordonbell » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

eieio wrote: post #13

ah hi! I made this! was wondering if this one would appeal to the HN crowd :) Happy to answer any questions! And here are a couple of scattered thoughts: * I'm really interested in what this looks like if you use animations (firefox supports animated favicons) - I could, for example, anticipate future ball positions and create animated SVGs to get a much nicer framerate. * A friend pointed out offline that canvas ras…

Post by OneLeggedCat » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 3:37 AM UTC

eieio wrote: post #13

ah hi! I made this! was wondering if this one would appeal to the HN crowd :) Happy to answer any questions! And here are a couple of scattered thoughts: * I'm really interested in what this looks like if you use animations (firefox supports animated favicons) - I could, for example, anticipate future ball positions and create animated SVGs to get a much nicer framerate. * A friend pointed out offline that canvas ras…

Post by ashu1461 » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 3:55 AM UTC

remram wrote: post #17

ge96 wrote: post #6

really cool, I like how modifiable Chrome can be, looks like this one uses websockets but you can use an extension for tab communication too

Or just the web storage API

Post by dejawu » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 6:11 AM UTC

Post by WastedCucumber » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 7:50 AM UTC

eieio wrote: post #22

uranium wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As one ridiculous-pong writer to another, I love your work. I really enjoy this kind of technical performance art, both to write and to view. It may also be part of why I juggle: "There must be a harder way to do this."

what’s your pong game? would love to see it