Pong using browser windows as the paddles and ball (2009)

by jstrieb • 5 years ago

67 19 5 years ago

jolmg• 5 years ago

Very cool. I didn't know websites had that kind of control over pop-up placement.

It gets quite confused with multi-monitor setups, though. I had to disconnect all but one display to be able to play. The paddles appeared on one display and the ball on another. The ball also only moved vertically.

tata71• 5 years ago

Porn sites etc used to use pop-unders!

diwank• 5 years ago

I became a huge fan of this when I first saw it and ended up making a similar "Bricks breaker" game, inspired by this, that uses popups too:

https://creatorrr.github.io/browser-bricks

P.s. The source code has a letter in it (http://stewd.io/pong/lib/pong.js)

tentacleuno2• 5 years ago

I love that letter. Totally stealing that idea. I can't say I haven't run F12 on any site I frequent, it's always been fun.

coolgeek• 5 years ago

Good comments, too!

  //  Wow. I had no idea JavaScript keyCodes differ from ASCII.
  //  They ignore case (both 'A' and 'a' will return 65)
  //  but differentiate between regular number and numeric keypad!

dheera• 5 years ago

Aww ffs why is this even possible? Why can JS control window positioning and size?

It seems we are all of a sudden able to make those popup bombs from the 90s internet again?

jasongi• 5 years ago

1. This is from 2009

2. I had to explicitly allow pop-ups when I clicked on this

laurent92• 5 years ago

The good old times when you could execute an antivirus from a website and it would scan all files of your local disk. Thanks to ActiveX.

Windows Update itself was a browser app. You could upgrade from the browser.

If we had known better, we would have made people upgrade from Windows to Linux this way, and Microsoft would have closed the giant hole faster.

meibo• 5 years ago

ActiveX was always signed, like regular binaries - if MS's Windows signing key leaks they probably have bigger problems.

tentacleuno2• 5 years ago

Windows Update itself was a browser app. You could upgrade from the browser.

I'm very interested in this. Would you mind expanding, please?

gregoriol• 5 years ago

A website can only control popups it opened I think, not the main window for example. It actually may be useful in some contexts, but should probably be throttled by the browser, like not more than 1 changes every 5 sec, because it can be also used in a very annoying way. As usual anyway.

purplecats• 5 years ago

doesnt work for me anyone got a video

GrumpyNl• 5 years ago

Press play three times, didnt work for me either.

a_t48• 5 years ago

I love that I can resize the paddle for an advantage. ;)

d--b• 5 years ago

Yeah, that other opponent is pretty strong too. I just closed the other guy's paddle and was able to score fairly easily

mad_ned• 5 years ago

Doom next?

Pong using browser windows as the paddles and ball (2009)

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