JS Wars

bdfh42 · on Oct 9, 2009

Nice write-up from Ajaxian here http://ajaxian.com/archives/fun-friday-mullets-and-space-bat...

pavel_lishin · on Oct 9, 2009

Holding down space didn't fire continuously, but instead scrolled me down the page.

Back button didn't work; had to click on a bookmark to leave.

Then it prompted me for a score, preventing me from leaving until I either hit escape or typed something in.

WilliamLP · on Oct 9, 2009

Sorry, but if a 7 year old kid wrote this in Flash I might be impressed. JavaScript has light-years to go before it's a viable platform for anything involving animation and graphics, for even the most cursory uses.

monos · on Oct 9, 2009

  >light-years to go before it's a viable platform
  >for anything involving animation and graphics

once all browsers support the canvas element (as does firefox3) its just a matter of time until some standard 2D animation libraries popup that will enable game development.

flash is ecmascript + proprietary set of libraries and a great IDE. but javascript has the advantage of coming out-of-the-box with the browser.

(and in the distant future there is Canvas 3D, which really is opengl exposed to JS :) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Canvas:3D )

WilliamLP · on Oct 9, 2009

> javascript has the advantage of coming out-of-the-box with the browser

Well sure, but you get a different js with every browser, and always will!

monos · on Oct 12, 2009

it's always a different superset. not too bad, and you always have that with different interpreters / compilers.

budu3 · on Oct 9, 2009

You miss the point. It is impressive because it's in pure javascript and everyone knows how hard it was to pull it off using javascript.

yannis · on Oct 9, 2009

With Chrome, it only started when I used enter. Nice demo of what one can do with JavaScript and modern browsers. As other people mentioned, flash still wins, but I view this as very impressive.

The code needs quite a bit of polish, but as the author mentioned this was a quick hack.

jfno67 · on Oct 9, 2009

Great demo, It even loads on my Android, I just can't start it without a keyboard. Wonder how well it would run.

IsaacSchlueter · on Oct 9, 2009

Hey, it's using my favicon!