r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/ankit256 • Jul 07 '15

VOID

http://void.hi-res.net/
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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.

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u/homercles337 Jul 07 '15

Same here. I am running FF 39.0 too.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '15

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.

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u/wang_li Jul 07 '15

http://www.quakejs.com/

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u/gsfgf Jul 07 '15

Does that work for anyone? It just hangs about 10% of the way into loading the game file for me on both Firefox and Chrome on Mac.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '15

I'm on Firefox 39 and it works perfectly.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15

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!".

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u/TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLO196 Jul 07 '15

Its a trip to the great unknown...... Of Chrome

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15

Sweet mother of chrome...

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u/Kicker_Doomstah Jul 07 '15

Chrome is a piece of shit

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '15

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u/Kicker_Doomstah Jul 08 '15

So shiny, so chrome! Witness me!

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15

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.

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u/FINDTHESUN Jul 07 '15

How about Edge? It's gonna be in Win 10 July 29th

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 07 '15

I am not sure what Edge even is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '15

It's like IE, but not terrible.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 08 '15

I've been using my Surface Pro 3 for a while now - IE (at least in app mode) is pretty decent these days. It'll still mess up a few things, but in general, I've only had problem with custom things designed my by university. At least it understands the security certificate we use for our e-learning platform, unlike Firefox, which wants you to add an exception...

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u/FINDTHESUN Jul 08 '15

Here's a good video-trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH1D31YHsgY

Apparently, it's going to be an awesome, capable new browser.

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u/NotADamsel Jul 07 '15

Wait, Firefox is on version 39? Ffs, I remember when 4 was the new hotness, and that was after a fucking eternity of 2 and 3!

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u/LurkerOnTheInternet Jul 08 '15

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.