Following Scott's foot step in favicon generation, I tried to push the envelope one notch further and pack some thrilling retro action into those 16x16 pixels. Attack wave ahead!!
awesome ... now all I need is a 16x16 monitor to play that game on ... or maybe 16x16 monitors ... or even windows of an office building ... *evil grin* ... *runs away into the cellars*
Tyberius Prime
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers
From: Germany Insane since: Sep 2001
posted 07-15-2008 11:15
I love it. Would also be cool on a 16x16 rgb-led array, I guess .
I noticed the caption "Defender of the favicon: A game running in your favicon " at the top of Reddit today and thought to myself - "Hmm, kind of sounds like that VU meter thing I read about at the Asylum yesterday".
Low and behold, it was written by Matthew 'p01' Henri. Nicely done, p01 and Scott.
reisio: Could be fun but I fear it's not possible. Too many things are not exposed : position of the favicon in the address bar & tabs bar, position of the mouse when outside of the window or when the window is not focuse.
CPrompt:
quote:If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press ENTER to toggle between favicon & canvas display
...
FireFox 3 suffers from garbage collection hick ups when playing in the favicon.
Ha, nice work P01! My hat, as usual, is off to you. On a side-note, it'd be awesome to figure out if and how we can get Safari to update the favicon area (I know it doesn't show in a tab, but at least in the address bar when in focus.)
Added some textual content, including a list of the Browser support. Disable the favicon display mode in Safari since this #@! browser don't support toDataURL(). I might add a bit more text, and maybe a score : simple code wise, but tricky to display in a legible way, but then it's calling for a 3 letters nickname entry screen and a Hall of Fame.
And man! DEFENDER of the favicon went all over the place. My site got more than a year's worth of traffic in just 2 days.
WebShaman: Are you on Windows ? In XP and Vista my FF3 choke when in favicon display mode.
Scott: well, thanks for the inspiration. Also until Safari publicly ship with the patch for 16673 or support the ImageData objects, we will have to resort to things like BMP data: URI generation. meh. OTOH we could hit two birds with one stone by doing so as we might gain IE8 support.
quote: poi said:Scott: well, thanks for the inspiration. Also until Safari publicly ship with the patch for 16673 or support the ImageData objects, we will have to resort to things like BMP data: URI generation. meh. OTOH we could hit two birds with one stone by doing so as we might gain IE8 support.(Edited by poi on 07-17-2008 14:07)
Good stuff, and glad to be an inspiration! That's what this place is about, in part, sharing crazy ideas and pushing each other creatively. XBM I think should work in IE 8 at least, but it sounds like data: is what was broken in IE 7 (and possibly IE 6? I forget when it went bad..), and BMP/GIF would at least allow for colour - Anyway, yes, hopefully data: will be back and functional with IE 8 when it ships. I understand data: is part of the ACID test, so it should be in there in at least a limited fashion.
Yes data: URIs are part of Acid2. So no need for monochrome XBM. We can generate real ICO files. It won't be a problem in this case but I heard IE8 do not support data: URIs longer than 32kb.
Which sends shivers down my spine. Analytics is on the web to make google's work AND
webmasters work easier. Blocking it is a nice way to hinder search results for the whole wide web.
It's not improving your privacy : it's the best imaginable way to be a nuisance to companies
who fairly want to know which pages to highlight and improve their own accessibility - and still cannot know your name
due to the very nature of HTTP. But no, whimmy kid decided it's kewl to mess up with other people's stats.
Pigface here : eventhough the prod is ok, you should try generating objects or something included in the page body instead,
now these were researches.
Today, I am around about something I am contributing to ALA, which you could probably use
for more better prods as well.
Webshaman : with the amount of time you spend jerking off behind a monitor and compensating
for the way your wife and kids beat you, rest assured I'll keep shivering at the mention of your name.
We simply have different visions of and expectations from the web. I just don't feel compelled to help companies make [more] money through analysis of my navigation. I see the nuisance on the other end of the spectrum.
Thanks for kind words, you almost managed to not call me names. You were this close. Too bad. Maybe next time.
This is not more a matter of opinion than observing the sky is blue.
By doing this, you are first and foremost preventing organizations to organize : check the united nations
site and see how THEY need accessibility stats to act on real world issues in countries where people
die by the day.
Trying to block an information flow this way is simply destructive : doesn't earn anyone less money,
it just makes you feel your whim is important. As much as it hurts you and you think that's calling you names,
it's a mere statement of facts.
Your expectations and emotions are the last of my concerns when it comes to important technical progress :
it has always been so. If I am an asshole to you then GOOD, GREAT even. I am not questionning poi's javascript prowess,
nor his intelligence : I am questionning this simple statement and encouragement to blocking something
as useful to all as google analytics.
So, grown ups should discover it for themselves - at least, before speaking, it's here : http://analytics.google.com
And you, feel free to go to http://www.kleenex.com or to my place : I've never hidden behind any facade, never pretended
to be a Shaman : when I find someone is an asshole, if I find it's worth spending the time, I tap on his shoulder and tell it
to his face.
Right Mr. Hamilton? You'll have all the time it takes to express your manliness right to me AT MY FACE, believe me.
From: there...no..there..... Insane since: May 2001
posted 07-18-2008 19:15
Can we please not let yet another thread be thwarted by comments like this back and forth? This really gets freakin old. You all need to keep the comments like this to email or something.
poi : not sure if you made some changes or something but it does work well in FF3 now however it really bogs it down. No big deal really, just thought I'd pass that along.
The feedback and linkage have been overwhelming : boinboing, laughingsquid, kotaku, b3ta, metafilter, idea*idea, mobygames, the Independent Game Source, ... and lots of social bookmarks. Just crazy.