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Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

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Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#41

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  ........cool..........dont' overwrite thiWhere is my dog?
  .......................................I can't find u.....
  ..What about zoom?.........*&^*#$&^@*#&@*......this sux...
  ..........How about timeout?---Can't overwrite for x secs.
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  Why are there no girls in HTML5 Canvas Experiment.........
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  ..a little too slow 
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  ... needs.....             CC    OO  OO OO  OO LL
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Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#42
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disabled backspace because I wasn't sure whether it should delete the char before the cursor (better for typing) or under the cursor (more natural if you click on something to delete it). Guess I'll just pick one... or have it delete under only if you clicked there?

Definitely the character before. Delete key should delete the character under the cursor.

It works now btw. You probably have to refresh.

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#44
post #12
post #2

An explanation from the author: This isn't a startup, it's just an idea I thought would be cool. I'm announcing it on HN first, hoping to get technical and aesthetic feedback before I throw the URL around. The two browsers in the submission title are the only ones I have on this machine. Right now it doesn't run as smoothly as I'd want in FF3. There are a couple big optimizations ideas I have, but I was comfortable e…

works OK in Opera 9 and 10

If it works in Opera, then it is too CPU-heavy on this older machine. I don't understand what it is, and can't interact with it.

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#46
post #12
post #2

An explanation from the author: This isn't a startup, it's just an idea I thought would be cool. I'm announcing it on HN first, hoping to get technical and aesthetic feedback before I throw the URL around. The two browsers in the submission title are the only ones I have on this machine. Right now it doesn't run as smoothly as I'd want in FF3. There are a couple big optimizations ideas I have, but I was comfortable e…

works OK in Opera 9 and 10

Confirmed, works in Opera 10b2.

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#47

This site proves the old "normal person + anonymity == total retard" maxim. Trending topics seem to be "gay", "penis", and "Django sucks" - lol.

Me and about 5 other people were talking about slashes, for like an hour. Made up a good joke out of it:

--Two slashes walk into a bar, one says to the other, "you got to make sure you help me 'escape' from here"

Totally had a blast \\\\\

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#48
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you only construct a tile if someone types in it; not if someone simply scrolls over it? How large are the tiles?

Correct, and 8x16.

Got it. I ask because the tile size will seem to directly impact the amount of data store contention (aka the number of db.TimeoutExceptions). It would be an interesting study to look at contention rates (percentage of failed datastore reads) vs. tile sizes when the app is under load.

(I also assume you make use of memcache, though I further presume that typing implies an immediate db put().)

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#49
So, it's chaos, and a lot of it is junk, but there's a good bit of good stuff in there too.

If the interface were better (navigation & editing commands) that would be sweet.

Privacy would be a matter of picking a distant enough location, if you could jump to it.

I also want zooming, but that would be a pretty major undertaking.

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#50
post #15

I love how everything's penis, or gay, or some variation thereof. Scrolling around to find the more erudite conversations was remarkably fun though. I kind of like it just as it is..

if you find the good conversations, try to make breadcrumbs to them, but nothing that attracts vandals
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