Contad: SVG + CSS3 craziness

http://www.freeger.com/projects/contextad/

by AaronO • 13 years ago

27 41 13 years ago

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antonwinter• 13 years ago

super cool design and website. only one gripe. it took over a minute to load. not many people will wait.

sinkasapa• 13 years ago

Runs horribly on the world's real best browser.

rrival• 13 years ago

Echoes of gabocorp.

bwy• 13 years ago

Agree with comments above- doesn't even run in my Chrome, Ubuntu 12.04

snarkyturtle• 13 years ago

Pretty amazing and perfect execution. Runs perfectly in OSX Chrome.

pallandt• 13 years ago

Quite funny. I attempted to load this in Chrome and I still get 'This site is running only on the world's best browser' with a link to download, ironically, Chrome.

mynameisvlad• 13 years ago

I don't understand how the number of people who viewed this yesterday goes up. Shouldn't that be a fixed metric? If it's just a demo, maybe some better number to demo would be better.

feniv• 13 years ago

Took a while to load but it scroll surprisingly smoothly. The sign-up button takes me to a wikipedia page about contextual advertising. Is that intentional?

And for those who can't view the project, try the post about it (from their homepage) : http://www.freeger.com/project.php?projectid=174

rjett0• 13 years ago

It's like the old, only works in IE days!

MDCore• 13 years ago

So I started writing something about how we were supposed to get away from the awfulness of flash, and it's stupidities like long loading screens, with CSS3 and HTML5. But I viewed the source and this is flash. Well the loading screen is. You see it's currently downloaded 4Mb across 2 .swf files and it's only about... a third of the way through, although it's hard to tell on the "fill in the word" progress bar.

My third-world 2Mbit internet connection doesn't seem to be up to scratch. At least my web browser is if the browser checking code has already run. This is like c2001 except then we did "if (ie) {} else if (ns) { }"

I hate to complain without actually having seen the subject matter, but flash, loading screens and "if (chrome) else { fail }" is harking back to a bad past.

Edit: I think the download died at just under 5 Mb. I guess my 2Mb internet really isn't up to scratch.

drawkbox• 13 years ago

Looks like it was flash and then converted with Swiffy: https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

synchronise2• 13 years ago

I strongly contest that Chrome is the 'world's best browser'.

nine_k• 13 years ago

"Only in [browser name]" is so 1997.

angersock• 13 years ago

I hate all these sites that discriminate against muh lynx!

shakes fist

Cthulhu_2• 13 years ago

yeah, going back to that now. HTML5 fanciness has replaced animated .gifs, too. And modal dialogs have replaced popups.

[rant]seriously, why do a third of the sites linked to HN open up with a meaningless modal dialog / popup asking me to join a mailing list or fill in a survey. I'd fill in a survey if you'd actually let me visit your site to see what the survey questions are about![/rant]

PedroBatista• 13 years ago

"This site is running only on the world's best browser", the new "Well it runs fine on my computer so...".

Other than that, nice piece of work!

madhusudancs• 13 years ago

"Well it runs fine on my computer so...".

You mean this? https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9wb9k0bbqfc2bw/IMG_20130718_17103...

51Cards• 13 years ago

Loaded it in Firefox and was told I needed to download Chrome.

Loaded it in Chrome and was told I needed to download... Chrome.

Guess my Chrome isn't bling enough.

goldfeld• 13 years ago

Maybe it's just your Chrome isn't Blink enough.

Raticide• 13 years ago

Didn't work for me until I enabled Flash.

chanux2• 13 years ago

Was it that "something something Best Browser something something" the message for your chrome as well?

chr1• 13 years ago

Their browser detection seems to be broken didn't work on latest chromium either.

Flavius• 13 years ago

That's because when you load it in Firefox it will redirect you to another URL. Then you copy/paste that in Chrome and you see the same message. I hate when websites do this...

lingben2• 13 years ago

why does chrome think the page is in Russian?

tossmeup• 13 years ago

I want my bandwidth back. Two thumbs down. Boooo. BOOOOOOOOO! Good DAY sir.

markdown2• 13 years ago

Here's a native (non-flash) version that supposedly also works in Firefox and Safari

http://dabblet.com/gist/6046779

Made by Verou: https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/358726425454444545

merlincorey• 13 years ago

Thank you, I was really disappointed to be told I could only find out what I was looking at if I installed chrome.

lingben2• 13 years ago

a message like that is a tipoff that what you're seeing was made by amateurs, just be thankful they gave you the warning and move on to things worth your time

synchronise2• 13 years ago

Works in Firefox, quite responsive too.

chanux2• 13 years ago

Extra points for not needing "world's best browser".

GhotiFish• 13 years ago

hmm. Amazing what the front page can do for a story, even if that story doesn't deserve it.

aaronz8• 13 years ago

Runs fine in Arch Chrome... though Contad Presents (the first bit) is centered based on window height. I didn't even see it until I made my Chrome window wider.

ancarda• 13 years ago

This site is running only on the world's best browser

Wow. Why don't people use feature detection or something? I don't understand the rise in vendor locking websites to Chrome.

I think we should just outright abolish the user-agent.

Cthulhu_2• 13 years ago

User-agents can be abolished once all browsers are created equal; same HTML standards support, same performance. Pretty sure it only works in Chrome because it has good support for the latest HTML technologies, good performance, and good developer tools.

pornel• 13 years ago

We have feature detection for this.

And the site doesn't work for me in Chrome Canary (that supports everything that stable Chrome does and more).

Author of that site is just a troll/fanboy or incompetent at using latest web standards.

Qantourisc• 13 years ago

Sites that do autodetect and ban access on the result are BAD BAD BAD. You can detect them and add a banner to inform the user the site might not work, and even explain why.

Also bad is using flash to detect it!

qreesp• 13 years ago

ok, background music that can not be turned off? WHY?

mtct• 13 years ago

This site is running only on the world's best browser

Not worth my time

stesch• 13 years ago

By the way: Top browsers in Germany http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-201206-201306

gotofritz• 13 years ago

I don't really like it.

What irks is that it tells you "scroll down to proceed" but then you can't scroll back up and control what's going on. Why not keep the page fixed and have the content within in scrolling? You know, like in a video?

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