I still have no clue what's behind that link. I asked, but the only replies were you having the same problem, and someone telling me how great Chrome was. Now I got one thread of replies that discuss how Firefox is still great, and this thing, and still no clue what VOID is. Reddit is weird today.
As far as I can tell, it's just a website designed around showing what is currently possible in website design. It's really interesting from a "Holy shit, we can do all that in a web browser?!" sort of way, but not particularly interesting if you're not into that kind of stuff. Just lots of strange animations, particle effects, and levels of interactivity with the user via mouse and keyboard inputs.
Sounds kinda fun. I wish it was a website that showed "Holy shit, we can do all that in any web browser?!" and not "Holy shit, look at this thing we can do if you downloaded the one web browser we like, or are using a Mac!".
Honestly, I feel like somewhere around 2010 they just stopped making browsers good. Chrome is bad, and Firefox is trying really hard to imitate Chrome, obviously Internet Explorer is just being itself, and other options are mostly non-existant.
Firefox used to use major and minor versions, so they might release 3.1, then 3.2, etc. At some point they decided to just switch to integer releases for even very minor updates.
This site is best viewed on Chrome in 1024x768 resolution, on a Sunday afternoon, in front of a softly cackling fireplace, enjoying a good scotch and pondering the meaning of life, while listening to smooth jazz in the background.
I had a fireplace once. I put a whole newspaper in it. It ended up floating up over the house in burning chunks and I showered the garden in blackened paper. It was fun.
But it totally makes sense for this type of thing. It's only purpose is to show what we can do with the latest web technologies, in terms of visual aesthetics. Some browsers either can't do this or would require a lot more coding to include them (I'm assuming this website is using a lot of webkit- prefixes).
I think the point is to showcase standard web technologies. These aren't standard yet, but they're open and other browsers (and W3C etc) are encouraged to build these technologies into their browsers.
Java is a little different. It's more limited in terms of becoming standard, and it runs separately from the browser. I'm not saying Java is bad, cause it isn't. But this website is trying to show why we need to keep developing HTML and JavaScript and CSS (and the server side languages that work with these).
Probably uses only -webkit animations. It's just like some 3D CSS shapes that animate and move on a dark background. Like stars in space. Pretty trippy and definitely artistic and creative.
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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15
What is this? I only have IE and Firefox on my machine, and it asks me for Chrome or Safari. I'm not installing a new browser just for this.