The magic button — Make Everything OK

by kilian • 15 years ago

133 41 15 years ago

macavity23• 15 years ago

Ah, the Internet: connecting together everyone with Too Much Free Time since 1991.

chris_engel2• 15 years ago

Is it just me, or is it broken in Google Chrome? In Firefox it works fine for me, but in Chrome, I initially see the "Everything is OK now" sign and can't click on anything...

cstuder• 15 years ago

Why would you want to click anything if everything is ok now?

(Works for me in Chrome 12 on Windows 7.)

hammock• 15 years ago

Just because things are OK doesnt mean you wont be doing anything

tsm• 15 years ago

Works for me in Chrome 12.0 on Crunchbang (Debian) Linux.

chris_engel2• 15 years ago

Got more strange JavaScript related Problems today. Just rebooted my mac and everything works fine now. Yes, rebooting isn't actually just a windows cure!

ranza• 15 years ago

+1 made me smile. Just what i needed right now

gigawatt2• 15 years ago

I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.

TeMPOraL6• 15 years ago

Because it is fun, thought-provoking a little bit, and just made me smile :).

gigawatt2• 15 years ago

Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for.

I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.

infinity2• 15 years ago

>info about who is behind the site:

Two names with a copyright are listed in an HTML comment in the source code at the end of the page. This information could be false of course.

captain_mars3• 15 years ago

Ha! This is a flashier and more philosophical cousin of ...

The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything

http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm

tiddchristopher• 15 years ago

But that doesn't "doesn't do anything"--it reloads the page.

captain_mars3• 15 years ago

Someone should tell the author, I guess ;)

But, if a page reloads and is exactly the same, did anything really happen?

NathanKP• 15 years ago

The button and blur effect are both very beautiful, so at first I was excited to see how they were done in code. But it turned out to be just plain images, no fancy CSS. In fact the entire popup dialog is an image, complete with the close button. Ah well...

TeMPOraL6• 15 years ago

It doesn't have to be a fancy CSS hack. It has to look nice. And it does. Simplest solutions are often good enough :).

ignifero• 15 years ago

But it works!

cidermonk3y• 15 years ago

Is it just me or did anyone else feel more relaxed after that? It's good to know that there is something out there that will make everything ok.

shii3• 15 years ago

No, this is complete bullshit. And the fact that it has gotten so many votes is ridiculous.

mtogo• 15 years ago

You sound unhappy. Maybe you should click the button-- it makes everything OK.

highace• 15 years ago

Funnily enough, yes. Psychology hack.

peteretep• 15 years ago

This would have been so so so much better if it'd stuck at 99%

pilif• 15 years ago

I'm seriously considering pointing people coming to me with a generic "it doesn't work" to this page to have it fixed.

Thanks for this post!

TeMPOraL6• 15 years ago

Just pointed my boss - "Use this if something goes wrong". ;).

EDIT: And she replied that "everything is now OK" :). Yey, it works!

WA• 15 years ago

This is great, but the final sentence could be happier, more colorful or something.

paulnelligan• 15 years ago

hmmm - "try checking your settings of perception of objective reality." - a bit geeky and out of touch I think ...

I would have said: "remember, you're alive, now take a deep breath, count your blessings, and make the best out of today and every day"

but everything's ok :)

tzury• 15 years ago

Nice and funny.

Being at OK buttons, the Donate button, is not OK

Raising money for a joke? Come on!

TeMPOraL6• 15 years ago

I don't see a problem with that. It's completely unobtrusive and doesn't distract at all. I spotted it by accident. I don't thing they're raising money, they're just allowing people who want to to show appreciation for their work.

martingordon• 15 years ago

Would be nice if it linked to Ze Frank's Chillout Song: http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/

TeMPOraL6• 15 years ago

Story behind this song is amazing and inspiring. Thank you for linking to that :).

philthy• 15 years ago

multiple clicks break it

rnernento• 15 years ago

Nice, simple, beautiful and funny. It might be cool if they tied the donate button into a charity or NPO and play off the fact that clicking it would actually help make things okay for someone.

gfodor• 15 years ago

I'm not one to do this, but really, how does this belong on Hacker News? Is there something I'm missing?

shii3• 15 years ago

It isn't. Stupid noise that appeals to the +1-ing social media sharing neophytes all over HN these days.

derobert• 15 years ago

This is a great example of why you should use platform UI, and shouldn't try to re-invent them:

1. Click the mouse and hold. The button doesn't depress (huh?)

2. Release the mouse button. Now it depresses (wtf). And actives.

3. Hover the mouse over it, it doesn't highlight.

4. Click the mouse and hold, then drag the mouse outside the button area. Release the mouse button. It depresses (ugh) and actives.

5. Click the disabled button while the progress dialog box is on screen. The progress box vanishes and the button actives

6. Attempt to active the button using the keyboard.

7. Attempt to make the button the focus for keyboard action by right-clicking or middle-clicking it (or click and drag out of it, but we already know that doesn't work). [This is a GTK feature]

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The magic button — Make Everything OK

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