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Re: Google Axis

#11

Post by esonica » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 6:16 AM UTC

There is a link on this page to http://www.googledemolition.com/ also, which looks like another project waiting for a takedown notice..

Re: Google Axis

#12

Post by audyyy » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 6:20 AM UTC

This would be more fun if I could use it with my NES gun

Re: Google Axis

#13

Post by barista » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 6:42 AM UTC

And the point of this is????

Re: Google Axis

#14

Post by barista » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 6:43 AM UTC

statictype wrote: post #3

I don't get it. Is this a demo of Chrome's capabilities? Or something more than that?

I doubt. Works as well in IE9 as well.

Re: Google Axis

#15

Post by JonnieCache » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 8:33 AM UTC

audyyy wrote: post #12

This would be more fun if I could use it with my NES gun

http://www.zerosign.net/index.php/2006/03/15/nes-zapper-mous...

Re: Google Axis

#16

Post by JonnieCache » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 8:36 AM UTC

esonica wrote: post #11

There is a link on this page to http://www.googledemolition.com/ also, which looks like another project waiting for a takedown notice..

This appears to be a tribute to the Cascade virus from the 80s.

http://kannan.jumbledthoughts.com/index.php/cascade-virus-do...

That page includes the ASM source code. Pretty interesting as it was the first malware to encrypt itself.

Re: Google Axis

#17

Post by swombat » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 9:59 AM UTC

Wow, DHTML! I hadn't seen this in 10 years at least!

Re: Google Axis

#18

Post by afx » Mon, Feb 14, 2011, 11:43 AM UTC

jaysonelliot wrote: post #7

Well, at least it proves that bad UX on the Web isn't entirely the fault of Flash.

It's never fault of Flash, but the "programmers" that misuse it.