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Elevator.js (2015)

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Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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bluejellybean wrote: post #50
kixiQu wrote: post #46

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In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe: https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html https://www.kickscondor.com http://tetrageddon.com/ wild net art projects

These types of links are why I'm still hopeful for the internet as a platform. What a hit of crazy weirdness out of some random persons brain, just excellent.

https://maya.land/blogroll.opml The cool web isn't dead :) and I'm not even sure it shrank -- the less-cool web just got a lot bigger right next to it.

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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kixiQu wrote: post #80
michaelpb wrote: post #60

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kickstcondor has a cool art style, but from my understanding it isn't exactly a personal site, given it's run by multiple people pretending to be a single person, who actually are doing this for work at Meta / Facebook: https://usesthis.com/interviews/kicks.condor/ I hadn't heard of some of these other ones, and they look cool, thanks for sharing!

"We're on YouTube a lot. But of course. The modern container for personalities. A lot of our characters are blended from vlogs and streams. For whatever reason, we pull a lot from the amateur cigar-smoking community." One cue that it was a joke is that the "multiple people" are supposedly a brother and sister pair named "Cody" and "Jody". Also the quote above. Also "Jody: We both use a lot of VR to interact with the…

see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20210201092129/https://kickscond...

> Grape-Nuts Media Lab announces a new partnership with the brilliant duo behind the beloved Kicks Condor intellectual property. This is a new page in our history—a crisp, brittle new page. (By brittle—we do not mean fragile or frail—we mean “firm and crackly” and “feels fun to touch, crumbles in the hand in a satisfying way, similar to a page fabricated from 3-D printed and nutted grape-based matter.”)

> Cody and Jody, the precocious brother and sister team hailing from Facebook Labs, have perfected their recipe for an iconic blogger-type character, one who is very difficult to describe in marketing terms, but which has caught the TiddlyWiki enthusiast worlds by storm.

> By now, it’s very clear that Kicks Condor was a secondary (or tertiary) character in the shelved script for National Treasure 3: How the West Was Done. But lowly beginnings have never stopped the Grape-Nuts® family before. Our founder, Joshua Jonathan Grape-Nuts took his original portfolio of grape-nuts sample textures to the Del Monte/Bloomberg Corp on a northbound Greyhound Bus back in 1863! That’s right in the middle of Civil War I!

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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Post by hinkley »

stevage wrote: post #78
hinkley wrote: post #64

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There's usually some combination of the Home key that does the same on most desktop browsers, but the control key varies by OS and sometimes browser. What there isn't on iOS as far as I'm aware is a way to scroll to the bottom. On infinite scroll pages accidentally navigating away as one can easily do with touch screen results in a lot of frustration.

How do you scroll to the bottom of an infinite page?

You scroll as far as the browser lets you. Then the page resizes, and you scroll again. If you know you were about 5 pages down, this is shedloads faster than scrolling by hand like a chump.

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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Post by theK »

unkulunkulu wrote: post #36
jerf wrote: post #31

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I think back in Ye Olde Days it was harder for people who just had a scrollbar, and weren't necessarily all that familiar with that, either. There has never been a technical need for it. The "Home" keyboard button when pressed on a web page has taken you to the top probably since the very first web browser was released. But there's a lot of computer users for whom that entire complex of keys off to the right of Enter…

Reading your post I realized that I have not pressed a Home button for years. Now I have a strong Home button (and full sized keyboard in general) nostalgia and cannot sleep! I will just go ahead and press it next time I see a full sized keyboard I swear!

Btw on most crop keyboards home is mapped to Fn + Left Arrow. No need to dig up that old IBM keyboard :-)

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

sandreas wrote: post #19
cpcallen wrote: post #7

A very cute bit of coding. But: I've always wondered who uses these "back to the top" buttons, and why? Until quite recently I hardly ever had reason to go back to the top of the page—I was much more likely to click a link or click the back button—and if I did a quick tap of the home key or flick of the touchscreen usually did the trick. Conveniently, both gestures work even if you've not gotten all the way down to t…

Yeah, in the days where fixed nav at top is often used by default it is not as common to have TOP links any more. Recently I searched for a way to PREVENT going to the top clicking a link that only had JavaScript in it and always jumped back and forth due to AJAX page reload. The solution[1] I found was using A no jump link . [1] https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/#no-jum...

You can make the onclick event.preventDefault to prevent the scroll and adding hashtag to the URL

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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Post by zild3d »

lopis wrote: post #12

I give it 3.5 / 5. It needs to preload the audio at least shortly before I click the button for optimal experience.

Also needs multiplayer support - if someone else presses the button soon after you have to wait and ride up together

Re: Elevator.js (2015)

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Post by phailhaus »

jerf wrote: post #31
cpcallen wrote: post #7

A very cute bit of coding. But: I've always wondered who uses these "back to the top" buttons, and why? Until quite recently I hardly ever had reason to go back to the top of the page—I was much more likely to click a link or click the back button—and if I did a quick tap of the home key or flick of the touchscreen usually did the trick. Conveniently, both gestures work even if you've not gotten all the way down to t…

I think back in Ye Olde Days it was harder for people who just had a scrollbar, and weren't necessarily all that familiar with that, either. There has never been a technical need for it. The "Home" keyboard button when pressed on a web page has taken you to the top probably since the very first web browser was released. But there's a lot of computer users for whom that entire complex of keys off to the right of Enter…

It's more useful for mobile, where there isn't a "home" key and you'll often need to scroll back up to access menus/filters/etc.
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