A game running in your browser's address bar
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#12Fun stuff though I would call them animations not games
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#14And my history is now full.
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#16I really wouldn't be able to think of any off the top of my head...
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#17Love the innovative thinking. Do you think there could realistically be any useful use-cases for this though? I really wouldn't be able to think of any off the top of my head...
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#18Love the innovative thinking. Do you think there could realistically be any useful use-cases for this though? I really wouldn't be able to think of any off the top of my head...
It demonstrates that you can use the address bar for animation. I imagine there might be a scenario where you'd want to try this for a progress bar or some other kind of status indicator.
That used to be what the status bar was for, until scripts started modifying it to hide link destinations (onclick= etc.) so that ability was disabled for "security reasons". Now the status bar is gone completely from most browsers by default, but onclick= can still be used to obfuscate link destinations.
Also, status bar scrollers were rather common on the "old web"; they won't be missed, and I hope address bar scrollers don't start being the next "cool thing". It's a fun demo-effect, just not something I'd like to see all the time.