fontBomb
Creative
browser toy
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
19 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Execution: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and entertaining to use
From 4 comments
So awesome. Spent 10 min blowing the hell out of hn. Now instead of raging against trolls I can simply blow them up.
bicknergseng on HNThis is brilliant. I will never surf the web the same way again!
jonny_eh on HNWow, this is so much fun to play with.
arrowgunz on HNSo cool, Good work Phil
kaybe888 on HN
Smart implementation with no dependencies
From 1 comment
This is cool... When I looked at your JS, I thought to myself "that is a reasonable amount of code for that kind of functionality...even a little less than I would've…
danso on HN
Objections
Explosions do not match click positions in Firefox
From 1 comment
In Firefox 13, the explosions don't correspond to the clicked locations/where the bombs are placed.
mozillarewind on HN
Bookmarklet loads external script, a security risk if changed
From 2 comments
You shouldn't try to fit your code in that bookmarklet...! Updatability issues aside (your original, server-loaded approach is absolutely valid), there definitely are limits to a…
gregsadetsky on HNThere's also a security concern. OP could change the code to a malicious script without anyone noticing.
_jb on HN
Slow in Chrome compared to Safari
From 1 comment
Just curious, why it so faster in Safari then in Chrome?
alptrv on HN
Requests
Add randomness to explosion radius
From 1 comment
Great fun. A couple of suggestions, speaking as a front-end designer / occasional indie-game artist: - I don't know how you're calculating it, but consider adding a bit of…
mortenjorck on HN
Host the script locally or inline the bookmarklet code
From 2 comments
Perhaps the GP wants to make sure that the code keeps working, regardless of the server's availability, etc...? dazbradbury -- Host a local copy of…
gregsadetsky on HNYou shouldn't try to fit your code in that bookmarklet...! Updatability issues aside (your original, server-loaded approach is absolutely valid), there definitely are limits to a…
gregsadetsky on HN
Questions
How does it manipulate letters on a page
From 2 comments
I'm going to look through the code now. What I don't understand is how do you manipulate letters like that? I always though font was this static thing that cannot be manipulated.…
dmak on HNI don't think you can, directly. You have to turn each letter into an element (a div or span typically) I'm reading the source, but can't see where he does this exactly. (I'm a…
emmelaich on HN
What music was used in the video
From 2 comments
Yeah, beautiful and charmingly funny video. Does anyone know what the waltz used was? Strauss?
josscrowcroft on HNhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker -> Waltz Of The Flowers
plehoux on HN
Alternatives named
kickassapp.com bookmarklet that turns pages into Asteroids
From 2 comments
Related: this bookmarklet turns the page into a game of Asteroids. http://kickassapp.com/
noahlt on HNI found something similar to this a few months back... very cool trick. http://kickassapp.com/
dev1n on HN
kathack.com snowball bookmarklet
From 1 comment
This is an impressive one as well (basically a big snowball that grows bigger picking up page elements): http://kathack.com/ I've always wondered if these sorts of tools could be…
valgaze on HN