Topic: DEFENDER + JS + Canvas + favicon == DEFENDER of the favicon

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!!

DEFENDER of the favicon



Hope you like it

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*

I love it. Would also be cool on a 16x16 rgb-led array, I guess .

Nice work, as always, Poi!

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windows of an office building

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THAT would be awesome!

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.



(Edited by synax on 07-15-2008 16:49)

poi

xeyes, maybe?

that's pretty freakin cool! However, I couldn't get it to do anything in FF3. Opera 9 it worked great.

Later,

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synax: it's a small small world.

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:

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If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press ENTER to toggle between favicon & canvas display

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FireFox 3 suffers from garbage collection hick ups when playing in the favicon.

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(Edited by poi on 07-15-2008 17:25)

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.)

(Edited by Scott on 07-15-2008 17:44)

Man that was cool!

I didn't have any problems playing it with FF3.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

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.



(Edited by poi on 07-17-2008 14:07)

"My site got more than a year's worth of traffic in just 2 days."

google ads!

I myself block google ads and analytics. It's not to push these down others' throat.

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WebShaman: Are you on Windows ? In XP and Vista my FF3 choke when in favicon display mode.

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I am playing on WinXP.

I do have Tab Plus installed, as well as Colorful Tabs...perhaps that is why?

Anyway, it works fine for me.

Edit : I did notice that it sometimes slows down, however, when I change direction.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Love it, poi You're internet famous!!! Way cool.

. . . : : . . Innervating Your Eyes & Mind : . . .

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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)

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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.

(Edited by Scott on 07-17-2008 17:12)

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.

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I myself block google ads and analytics.

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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.

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Which sends shivers down my spine.

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Then keep shivering *shrugs*

Back on topic.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

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.

Or giggling.

argo_navis: long time no see ... sort of.

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.

Aaaannnd another perfect entry from @$$hole No. 1!

I wonder how many years it will take you, IMA, to finally realize just what you are.

In any event, as was expected, you fulfill our expectations.

Well done

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

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.

(Edited by argo_navis on 07-18-2008 17:37)

hellllllloooo...

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.

Later,

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poi: Amazing! Now I'm very compelled to do sub-pixel rendering inside a favicon!

Oh and hey everyone, here's a bookmarklet to remove all argo_navis comments:

javascript:(function () { document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/(<tr[^>]*)(>[^<]*<td[^>]*author_cell[^>]*>[^<]*<span[^<]*<strong[^<]*<a[^<>]*>argo_navis)/g, "$1 style=\"display: none\"$2"); })();

Screws up the zebra striping though...



(Edited by MaGnA on 07-18-2008 23:18)

That is pretty nifty, MaGnA.

Thanks for posting it.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

pardon for my ignorance but...how do you use that script exactly? I looked up "Bookmarklets" but didn't come up with anything

<edit> Nevermind....I got it </edit>

Later,

C:\

(Edited by CPrompt on 07-19-2008 15:04)

hey, you made it into Ehrensenf (around 1:11 into the video) - the german equivalent of rocketboom,
congratulations poi!

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.

congratulations poi!!!

Great stuff, Poi!!!

Grats, you earned it!!!!

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

that's awesome poi! Big congrats!!!

I wish I knew what she was saying but it sounded like she like it LOL

Later,

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