On: Browser Pong

[kiba]

It would be better done with canvas and javascript.

As of right now, it is a poorly done game with an ever expanding popup windows. It is hard to figure out what and where the paddle is. I automatically won 3 points merely being confused.

It is hard to see why the inhabitant of hacker news voted up the story.

[heyitsnick → kiba]

It demonstrates a neat effect. I'm sure many people like me soon were right-clicking to inspect the code.

edit:

And I'm sure this was done with just our kind of people in mind:

/*

Dear Source-Code-Reader

First of all, thank you for caring. Not that many people view source. One of the beautiful things about JavaScript is that it's necessarily Open-Source. I like that a lot. I hope you find this source code somewhat useful, and not too dirty. Remeber to pay it forward.

Stewart Smith, Stewdio. December 2009.

*/

[julio_the_squid → heyitsnick]

Well, the source simply being viewable for JavaScript is not the same as all JS being released under an open source license! I guess this is kind of like an open source license, though.

[abstractbill → kiba]

I hope you're joking, but if not... I think this is actually a fantastic example of what it means to hack. It's a very unexpected, humorous example of doing something with technology, that the designers of the technology (I'm pretty sure!) never would have anticipated.

[axod → kiba]

I think you're missing the point. It's a fun hack. It's an off center way of doing something.

This is how new cool stuff gets created. Think outside the box. Think "hah what if we...." etc

[dunstad → axod]

Or, as the author says in his 'about' section, think with the box :)

[scott_s → kiba]

Because it's a neat hack.