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The magic button — Make Everything OK
- macavity23 15y agoAh, the Internet: connecting together everyone with Too Much Free Time since 1991.
- chris_engel 15y agoIs it just me, or is it broken in Google Chrome? In Firefox it works fine for me, but in Chrome, I initially see the "Everything is OK now" sign and can't click on anything...
- cstuder 15y agoWhy would you want to click anything if everything is ok now? (Works for me in Chrome 12 on Windows 7.)
- hammock 15y agoJust because things are OK doesnt mean you wont be doing anything
- tsm 15y agoWorks for me in Chrome 12.0 on Crunchbang (Debian) Linux.
- chris_engel 15y agoGot more strange JavaScript related Problems today. Just rebooted my mac and everything works fine now. Yes, rebooting isn't actually just a windows cure!
- ranza 15y ago+1 made me smile. Just what i needed right now
- gigawatt 15y agoI don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoBecause it is fun, thought-provoking a little bit, and just made me smile :).
- gigawatt 15y agoYeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for. I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.
- erikpukinskis 15y agoSome people believe in art and want to help it flourish.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoI believe in creative thoughts which not harm, but which do something good, even if it's just making someone smile. And I definitely want them to flourish. Art is, of course, one of the types of those creative thoughts.
- infinity 15y ago>info about who is behind the site: Two names with a copyright are listed in an HTML comment in the source code at the end of the page. This information could be false of course.
- trollDetektor 15y agoYou are the definition of "Internet Troll". If you don't like it, move along. If you don't want to donate, move along. You don't want to be a troll, but you are?? LOL. Idiots on the internet.
- captain_mars 15y agoHa! This is a flashier and more philosophical cousin of ... The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm
- tiddchristopher 15y agoBut that doesn't "doesn't do anything"--it reloads the page.
- captain_mars 15y agoSomeone should tell the author, I guess ;) But, if a page reloads and is exactly the same, did anything really happen?
- infinity 15y agoThe answer is yes, HTTP requests and caches at work, quite a lot is going on.
- captain_mars 15y agoAs someone on HN, I understand that. I was just being philosophical. I guess, thinking whether anything happened depends on one's level of perception, and one's definition of what it means for something to "happen". (That is, whether you are looking only at the final result of a process, or at everything that happens during the process, irrespective of the final outcome). If my Internet-newbie father clicked that button repeatedly, I'm sure he would think that "nothing is happening", and at his level of perception, that statement would be correct. EDIT: Elaboration.
- NathanKP 15y agoThe button and blur effect are both very beautiful, so at first I was excited to see how they were done in code. But it turned out to be just plain images, no fancy CSS. In fact the entire popup dialog is an image, complete with the close button. Ah well...
- cidermonk3y 15y agoIs it just me or did anyone else feel more relaxed after that? It's good to know that there is something out there that will make everything ok.
- peteretep 15y agoThis would have been so so so much better if it'd stuck at 99%
- pilif 15y agoI'm seriously considering pointing people coming to me with a generic "it doesn't work" to this page to have it fixed. Thanks for this post!
- TeMPOraL 15y agoJust pointed my boss - "Use this if something goes wrong". ;). EDIT: And she replied that "everything is now OK" :). Yey, it works!
- WA 15y agoThis is great, but the final sentence could be happier, more colorful or something.
- paulnelligan 15y agohmmm - "try checking your settings of perception of objective reality." - a bit geeky and out of touch I think ... I would have said: "remember, you're alive, now take a deep breath, count your blessings, and make the best out of today and every day" but everything's ok :)
- tzury 15y agoNice and funny. Being at OK buttons, the Donate button, is not OK Raising money for a joke? Come on!
- TeMPOraL 15y agoI don't see a problem with that. It's completely unobtrusive and doesn't distract at all. I spotted it by accident. I don't thing they're raising money, they're just allowing people who want to to show appreciation for their work.
- martingordon 15y agoWould be nice if it linked to Ze Frank's Chillout Song: http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/ http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/
- TeMPOraL 15y agoStory behind this song is amazing and inspiring. Thank you for linking to that :).
- philthy 15y agomultiple clicks break it
- trollDetektor 15y agoIt works fine. Get over it.
- gpambrozio 15y agoWhy do you need to click twice if everything is already OK after the first click?
- rnernento 15y agoNice, simple, beautiful and funny. It might be cool if they tied the donate button into a charity or NPO and play off the fact that clicking it would actually help make things okay for someone.
- gfodor 15y agoI'm not one to do this, but really, how does this belong on Hacker News? Is there something I'm missing?
- shii 15y agoIt isn't. Stupid noise that appeals to the +1-ing social media sharing neophytes all over HN these days.
- derobert 15y agoThis is a great example of why you should use platform UI, and shouldn't try to re-invent them: 1. Click the mouse and hold. The button doesn't depress (huh?) 2. Release the mouse button. Now it depresses (wtf). And actives. 3. Hover the mouse over it, it doesn't highlight. 4. Click the mouse and hold, then drag the mouse outside the button area. Release the mouse button. It depresses (ugh) and actives. 5. Click the disabled button while the progress dialog box is on screen. The progress box vanishes and the button actives 6. Attempt to active the button using the keyboard. 7. Attempt to make the button the focus for keyboard action by right-clicking or middle-clicking it (or click and drag out of it, but we already know that doesn't work). [This is a GTK feature] </rant>
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