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Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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This won the Assembly 2020 1kb demo competition. There are some truly mind-blowing entries, including the 2nd place entry which features multiple types of spaceships and a stargate, with audio. https://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=7&when=2020

It's fantastic that the demoscene just keeps on going. It's been decades!

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could ask one of your friends to watch the demo on their computer.

Who knows, maybe the policy extends as far as not having any friends using Chrome.

Or friends at all.

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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oh wow, I thought the video was an artistic edit of the program. it was frustrating me because just wanted to see the program, not a filtered, edited trailer. then I realized that's the program. this is really mindblowing, the creator is definitely some kind of genius

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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Who decided to use extremely annoying sounds as the audio track for the first video on the page [1]?

I turned it off immediately after hearing its audio.

If you want folks to watch a video, allow me to suggest making it as pleasant an experience as possible, at least in terms of the audio.

Terrible marketing = marketing that makes your customers/prospects/audience suffer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN139WkcCY&feature=emb_logo

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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The real version of this, which is actually 1021 bytes, is here: http://www.p01.org/MONOSPACE/monospace.htm . It uses the very clever trick of compressing the JavaScript code as the pixels of a PNG image (which uses Deflate internally), then including the page itself in an tag and decompressing the JS code from the resulting pixels. Unfortunately , the developer made a bit of a mistake when uploading this file: it ap…

> but fails on newer Chrome because of click-to-play audio.

In these cases, you can also refresh and rapid click, it gets registered as a user gesture and the audio is allowed to start. Maybe try two-three times.

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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OK, this is really weird, but I closed the browser tab with the demo ca. 1 minute ago and can still hear the music. I'm on FF/Big Sur.

Can confirm on latest FireFox on Mojave. It went away when I opened and closed a new blank tab.

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess . . . . "Because the rest of the commentors in this thread seem to not be reading the article"

We'll, they're not reading the article, yet they're expecting people to read their comment. And if not, why comment at all? I think some selective derision is warranted.

While it says that "[...] you need to use a Chromium or Webkit browser to enjoy MONOSPACE live." (emphasis mine), it does not say "DO NOT USE FIREFOX UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, it will mess up your device for minutes" anywhere.

We saw so many (warranted or unwarranted) "Best viewed with Chrome"-statements on the web already that we became desensitized to it years ago.

Re: Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

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OK, this is really weird, but I closed the browser tab with the demo ca. 1 minute ago and can still hear the music. I'm on FF/Big Sur.

OK, I submitted a bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1671968
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