Useful? Sure seems like it could be. Fun? YES.

March 15, 2005 1:07 PM

COOL Javascript Trickery. Useful? Sure seems like it could be, though I can't think how. Fun? YES!
posted by gummo (23 comments total)

You can go up and try the first few, but I linked to the fun one. The bunny one.
posted by gummo at 1:09 PM on March 15, 2005

Why can't the bicyclists run over the bunnies, dammit! (Seriously, this is pretty cool, tho I'm scared to even look at the code.)
posted by jeremias at 1:10 PM on March 15, 2005

The implications of this technology on pornography are staggering.

If your changes were viewable to the world it would be more useful, like the Just Letters post of a month or two ago.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 1:16 PM on March 15, 2005

This has been around quite a while (on the linked site, the divs are even resizable).
posted by rafter at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2005

I once had a friend who had an entire reinactment of Super Mario Bros. set up through javascript that would play along the bottom of your browser. That was four years ago, I'm sure it's much easier to do those kinds of things nowadays. If I had a need to. Ever.
posted by patgas at 2:21 PM on March 15, 2005

YoungPup has a drag-n-drop library as well.
posted by yerfatma at 3:06 PM on March 15, 2005

Read about ajax for a more in-depth look at using JavaScript and DHTML for rich client interactivity.
posted by matildaben at 3:08 PM on March 15, 2005

I enjoy making the recumbent bicyclist dive into the gaping maw of the german shepherd.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:09 PM on March 15, 2005

I think it would be useful for those sites which advertise with layered images. I usually have to bump the text size up to read (bring me my spectacles and ear-trumpet, Junior!), and halfway down the article, I have a Verizon ad blocking the view.
posted by Tullius at 3:41 PM on March 15, 2005

Ajax has nothing to do with this type of DHTML (well that's not fair, it could but not really).

Not to mention Ajax is just a stupid pretty name put on the XMLHTTPRequest object.

Actually none of this is very new and could be done for a long time.
posted by bitdamaged at 3:51 PM on March 15, 2005

"Actually none of this is very new and could be done for a long time."

yeah, but it's cool. and, as Tullius pointed out one instance, applicable, so it's nice to hear about, specially since it's not seen often.
posted by carsonb at 4:03 PM on March 15, 2005

old news, nothing to see here.
posted by furtive at 4:25 PM on March 15, 2005

Did y'all see the drag 'n' drop shopping cart at Panic.com (written by MeFite cabel) and the related MeFi discussion ???

Perhaps he can tell us how much this library inspired him?
posted by spock at 4:28 PM on March 15, 2005

Huh? Draggable layers have been around since at least 1998. What's new here?
posted by FieldingGoodney at 5:00 PM on March 15, 2005

Actually, I've never seen this library, but I sure do enjoy dragging that recumbent bicycle all over the damn place! Every web page should have a recumbent bicycle on it!

After digging around a bit it looks like a good set of well written and object-oriented functions to make drag and drop Javascripting much easier. I imagine it'd be a great head start for a project. I only wonder if the full library might be overkill for simpler tasks (you can get basic drag and drop going in just a couple of functions), and that the dragging seems a little choppy in Safari?
posted by cabel at 5:09 PM on March 15, 2005

WalterZorn rocks. We use some of his line-drawing techniques for some of our sites here (can't get into specifics, unfortunately, but let's just say that charts are involved). There's room for optimizations in his scripts, but he covers the principles in a way that few others do.

Oh, and Ajax? Schmoozy name for a slick-yet-basic concept that's been used for years.
posted by crabcakes at 5:26 PM on March 15, 2005

I'm sorry, but the bunnies need more pancakes.
posted by substrate at 5:52 PM on March 15, 2005

You know, YoungPup.net really did not have the sort of content I was hoping for expecting.
posted by wolftrouble at 10:11 PM on March 15, 2005

Didn't work on Firefox, but worked on Konqueror. What's up with this? I saw this with the fractal mazes as well. Is there a problem with the Firefox JavaScript implementation?
posted by salmacis at 1:13 AM on March 16, 2005

For some other cool javascript trickery see Google's homage to OS X page.
Hint: hover over the images
posted by spock at 5:26 AM on March 16, 2005

Didn't work on Firefox, but worked on Konqueror. What's up with this? I saw this with the fractal mazes as well. Is there a problem with the Firefox JavaScript implementation?

Works fine on my copy. (WinXP sp 1 firefox 1.0.1)
posted by defcom1 at 6:20 AM on March 16, 2005

Didn't work on Firefox, but worked on Konqueror. What's up with this?

Is Tools>options>Web Features>Enable Javascript checked?
posted by catachresoid at 7:46 AM on March 16, 2005

salmacis - blackdown java or sun's jre? I never did get blackdown to work properly. Getting java working correctly on my laptop was more difficult than acpi (which still doesn't quite work). Gentoo, Firefox 1.0.
posted by bh at 10:28 AM on March 16, 2005