IE6 effect in HTML5

[tswicegood]

http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6/

[points]

Not realistic. The box moves smoothly and as fast as you move the mouse. Add some random pauses and glitches ;)

[mayank]

I'm running on Ubuntu with a side-by-side MacOS X in a VM, and I couldn't help think "aahh...shit". Some habits die hard.

[stavros → mayank]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was worried for a minute, and then I thought "wait, I'm on Ubuntu. How did IE crash?"

[maushu → mayank]

Same, but on Windows with Chrome. For a second there I thought the ie-view extension (for web development) had crashed, until I remembered that I don't have that extension installed here.

[barnaby → mayank]

Upvote! I had the same moment of panic, like: "aaaahhhhh shiii...wait a second. LOL"

[emilsedgh]

Is it just me or everyone likes filling whole page with this thing? I always loved doing so.

[dasil003 → emilsedgh]

ok go do http://vimeo.com/7166047

[adorton]

This is the culmination of HTML5 technology. It doesn't get any better than this.

[jayliew → adorton]

Walked through and explained the code step by step: http://times.jayliew.com/2010/10/07/ie6-effect-how-it-works/

p.s. I know there's a lot of expert js hackers on HN far better than I am, this is just more for a beginner audience

[Cushman]

In Chrome on OS X at least the cursor sometimes doesn't appear immediately when you leave the screen. Now that caused a little oh-shit moment. How did it get out of the box?

[RoboTeddy]

if you bounce them across the screen from the top left it's just like after you win a game in windows solitaire

[jadedoto]

just for fun i went there on my ipad and it also supports multitouch... mmm, a dozen of these suckers... so relaxing, reminds me of a simpler day...

[cmelbye]

Ahh, not so good memories. I remember trying to make some sort of picture or pattern with the windows before the screen cleared in a few seconds.

[lenart]

ROFL! Great job! This is something we should keep in favourites and show to our grandchildren.

My favourite HTML 5 site so far :)

[thedjpetersen]

Mr.doob is amazing, everything he turns out leaves me a little wow-ed

[MarkSweep]

This almost makes me miss not having a composited desktop.

[erikstarck]

That's just mean.

And very, very funny.

[some1else]

I can have fun with this for hours. Addictive X-D

[meatsock]

more websites should re-contextualize computer misbehavior. it briefly worked in the human domain for gg allin.

[X-Istence]

Wow, that had me worried for a second ...

[lurchpop]

performs insanely well on FF. even after doing it for like 60 seconds the performance never degrades.

[pilif → lurchpop]

I wouldn't expect it to degrade. This is using canvas - it's not creating a new copy of the image every time, but just painting that one image to the canvas.

The resource consumption is constant over time, so performance really shouldn't degrade.

[burke]

Ahh, nostalgia.

[recoiledsnake]

That's not a IE6 effect, that's a Win 95 to Win XP effect.

[binspace]

Gah, that is stressful.