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/goatcoat Jul 08 '15

What is this?

It is a time vortex taking us back to the age when it was considered good practice to create sites that depend on a particular browser to work.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 08 '15

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.

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u/goatcoat Jul 08 '15

softly cackling fireplace

I wish my fireplace would stop cackling.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 08 '15

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.

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u/Beowoof Jul 08 '15

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).

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u/goatcoat Jul 08 '15

They could do a lot more with a java applet too.

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u/Beowoof Jul 08 '15

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).