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ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia
- iwaffles 14y agoIt looks like you're writing a comment. Would you like help?
- ignostic 14y agoDidn't everyone hate clippy? Someone do a test and tell us the effect on bounce rate/time on site. For science.
- bilalq 14y agoYeah, but everyone loved to hate on clippy. Results would swing the opposite way.
- mrdazm 14y agoIncredibly coincidental that you did this. I was talking to a friend today and brought up forgotten Clippy. Glad to see it reborn and given the JS plugin treatment!
- neoveller 14y agoOddly enough, I'm very compelled to believe Clippy may be a very useful on-boarding tool for new users to websites.
- jasondenizac 14y agodon't do it, man
- neoveller 14y agoJust until you've clicked close on him enough times... then never again... you'll miss him, you'll see.
- freditup 14y agoAww, it's missing the robot I always used to use! Pretty funny though, it would be useful for a decent April Fools Day joke. Nice job.
- skrebbel 14y agoSomehow, I find the MS word UI even more impressive. You can edit the page, move blocks around, and so on! Pretty well done for something that has no application at all.
- milesokeefe 14y agoMost of the heavy lifting comes with contenteditable, but it is impressive nevertheless.
- rushabh 14y agoWow! I am a frequent visitor of HN and did not know such an awesome feature existed. Wonder why is it not used so often? http://html5demos.com/contenteditable http://html5demos.com/contenteditable
- lucian1900 14y agoIt is used often. All the WYSIWYG editors out there use it.
- skrebbel 14y agoDon't get too excited. Its cross-browser support is a mess that makes getting HTML 3.2 layers work to on IE4 and Netscape feel like a party.
- daeken 14y agoThis is actually really neat, but isn't this a pretty blatant copyright violation? Reimplementing agents in JS would be fine, but using their actual content seems to cross the legal line.
- zerostar07 14y agoGestureLeft and right seem to be wrong.
- clippit 14y agoIt has been discussed before on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038194 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038194
- glennos 14y agoI'd love to see this as an easter egg in Windows 8.
- obeattie 14y agoPrepare to see this everywhere next April Fool's day
- BigFatGangsta 14y agoClippyJs is pretty nice... I used it in http://uglyhack.appspot.com/boingy/ http://uglyhack.appspot.com/boingy/ for pure nostalgia.