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10K Apart - Web Apps in 10Kb or less
- user24 16y agoThis was a fun contest, but I was disappointed to see the majority of winners were games. In fact only 7 out of the 'top' 16 weren't games. Also there was no discussion about why the winning entries were judged as they were, so the opportunity to learn what made a 'great web app' was limited. Finally, the contest got a lot of criticism for allowing 3rd party APIs and frameworks like jQuery - I can see both sides of the argument on that one.
- eli 16y agoI thought the criticism was a little overblown. The goal of the contest was to show off what you can do with new HTML5 features in not a lot of code. It wasn't really about Javascript code golf. So I think allowing jQuery makes sense. (Though then again, I'm also guilty of writing a game as well: http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/154 http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/154 )
- user24 16y agofun game! Much more polished than my submission was - http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/243/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/243/ - a spatial bookmark manager. I ran out of time to fix the bugs.
- user24 16y agosee also: http://js1k.com http://js1k.com for a more 'grass roots' demoscene-y sort of contest.
- joakin 16y agoMan I loved this one http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/91/ http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/91/ Have it on my bookmarks and use it to make comments to my friends or coworkers. Anybody knows a permanent url or a similar (free) app for that?
- eli 16y agoAnd by the way, what a brilliant piece of marketing from Microsoft. Force a bunch of developers to play with the new features in IE9 who likely never would have downloaded a "technology preview" on their own for a mere $10,000 AND earn some good PR while doing it.