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Txtbirds
- vignesh_vs_in 14y agoWorks only on chrome, Firefox(15 on XP) just shows a blank screen. Edit: Apparently it doesn't work on FF 15. It worked on FF16 XP. and it also works on Safari
- mcherm 14y agoWorks fine for me on Firefox 16.0.2 (Win).
- willyt 14y agoSafari 6.0.2 is fine
- freejack 14y agolatest safari is peachy too.
- sabret00the 14y agoWorks for me in Firefox (Nightly) 19
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- ygra 14y agoWorks fine in IE 10 too.
- Gigablah 14y agoI was expecting the page title to animate as well :)
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- pfortuny 14y agoI thought it was an angry birds for the command-line. Even though it is beautiful, I feel a bit disappointed... :)
- xvolter 14y agoAw, now that I've read this you got my hopes up.
- bootz15 14y agonot impressed. doesn't even work in opera :(
- forrestkyle 14y agoYeah, I'm not very impressed with Opera either. ;)
- plorkyeran 14y agoWorks fine for me in Opera.
- chao- 14y agoGetting all sorts of text artifacts remaining smeared across my browser. Not this site's fault, and is something I've experienced before. It does make me wonder where the blame lies, though: Linux, Firefox or my graphics card?
- lmm 14y agoMy priors would be: if it's an ATI card it's their fault, otherwise probably firefox.
- xvolter 14y agoThe most likely would be Firefox. As Linux has nothing to do with graphics, so I assume you mean your X Server - like Gnome or XFCE or KDE - none of which have much affect into major browsers, which are designed to render themselves entirely separate from the system's window manager to be multi-platform. It's also not likely to be your graphics card, otherwise it would happen outside of your browser too. It could be the browser attempting to "accelerate" web pages by using your GPU - in which case you can find out by disabling GPU Accelerated Rendering - both Firefox and Chrome have settings for this.
- brazzy 14y agoI believe your last guess is correct, in which case the fault is with the graphics card drivers.
- chao- 14y agoSorry, I should have specified better. By "Linux" I meant the overall mix of Xorg and whatever display or GUI toolkits are in use, and instead of "graphics card", I should have said "graphics card drivers". If the card itself were having issues, I'm sure more than Firefox would have problems. Alternatively, I always hear about how "Linux has bad font rendering!" but since I'm not much of a font guy, I'm not sure if they're referring to how the fonts look, or some deeper part of the process which displays the fonts. I recently had to switch to the radeon (open source) drivers instead of fglrx (AMD's proprietary) drivers due to some incompatibility with a kernel upgrade. It makes sense that the problem would exist somewhere between Firefox and its use of those drivers.
- antirez 14y agosmall little piece of art, great.
- sequoia 14y agoIs there a blog post about this? I get most of it but a couple things, namely how the css transitions interact with the property updates in in the veer & fly functions and how opacity is governed. Good show, nice example of a tidy little JS object!
- jsvine 14y agoHey, thanks! I haven't written anything about txtbirds yet, but might soon. In the meantime, a brief explanation about those transitions and property updates: - With the exception of the `margin` transition, all the transitions are set to 10 seconds — roughly each bird's lifespan. - The `left` and `top` transitions move the bird toward the center from a randomly-assigned position on the screen. - The `font-size` and `color` transitions create the impression that the bird is receding into the distance, getting smaller and more lightly-colored. - The `margin` transition governs the veering. Every half-second, the bird is given new, randomish left- and top-margins. The transition (set to slightly less than a second in duration, after some trial-and-error) smooths that shift.
- sequoia 14y agohaha the text is faded to BG color, not alpha 0%... not sure why this possibility didn't occur to me. Thanks!
- nickthemagicman 14y agoAny way to get this as a screensaver?
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- K2h 14y agoOn windows, I imagine you could set screensaver to call firefox directly to load the web page - and set firefox to default to full screen mode. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
- jonalexr 14y agoIf you're on a Mac check out https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver - Works well but you might not always have an internet connection so I just saved the HTML/CSS/JS into a folder and linked directly to that (and it works!)
- shiftins 14y agopass gyre into your constructor, and reference the local variable. kudos, i love scripts for the sake of scripts.
- jsvine 14y agoGood idea. Done: https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/207480cae2823dd57a73062c933295cfdd0a8631 https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/207480cae2823dd57a...
- polyfractal 14y agoI was really hoping that clicking the birds would shoot them down ala duckhunt. Fun little demonstration :)
- swohns 14y agoI tried the duckhunt click too, could be a nice mod into a HTML5 game!
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- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoHere you go... shoot them all! http://jsfiddle.net/vNuns/3/embedded/result/ http://jsfiddle.net/vNuns/3/embedded/result/ (the code added is the peace at the end)
- ilanco 14y agoAny reason you close your <html> tag with a </div> ?
- jsvine 14y agoNope, just an oversight. Thanks for flagging. Fixed: https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/b1fbf84560c1b2ad300e6ec6a8162268f442b43b https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/b1fbf84560c1b2ad30...
- nicklovescode 14y agoNot a critique of this in particular, but does JS styling inconsistency not drive everyone else mental? I'm not a big fan of camelCase, but when I see veer_coefficient_horizontal next to setTimeout, I get itchy.
- jofo25 14y agoI liked this little trick for going over and over an array: this.flaps = [ '------', '/‾\\/‾\\', '‾‾\\/‾‾' ]; ... this.el.innerHTML = this.flaps[this.flap_i++ % this.flaps.length];
- jgv 14y agoWhat about txtpeople tho? http://asdf.us/vortex/ http://asdf.us/vortex/
- DanBC 14y agoI like this. What next, 3d ascii boids, with text size to show near or farness?
- programminggeek 14y agoI instantly tried to play duck hunt with this. It's broken.
- jentulman 14y agoA flock of CSSGulls?