Kenneth's Picnic

I’ve just submitted my Chrome Experiment – JavaScript Fireworks.
http://js-fireworks.appspot.com/

This amuses me because it’s such an old-fashioned idea. A bit like snow on your website, it’s a very nineties theme and I suspect I’ll have a lot of ex-Geocities users asking me how to include it on their pages.

I’m particularly pleased with the TinyURL inclusion, just for the hell of it And I look forward to tracking the messages via Google Analytics.

It’s no revolution (some of those experiments are awesome), and it’s not very Chrome-specific. Firefox handles the canvas better now, and Safari is very fast. Should I use excanvas to support IE???
Anyways, I’m pleased with the effect.

Update (12 May 2009):
No response so far (snif). I saw some hits from California, and one message sent saying “Not Your Mother’s JavaScript” – which is the experiments’ tagline. Fingers still crossed.

Update (13 May 2009):
Some quick updates: IE support! Really shows off the awesome excanvas library. But it’s a bit slow. I’ve intentionally not reduced the activity in IE to show the performance difference. Also, changed the default message.
Also, allowed click events to bring up the window, so it’s a bit more useable.

Update (16 May 2009):

Added various controls to experiment with. Time and gravity controls are fun. Toyed with framerate and number of sparks sliders, but didn’t work out.

Update (21 May 2009):

Added credit for the font, which was a free font, BM Receipt, passed through Cufon Generator to get each point as a JavaScript array, then stripped back to remove the lines, leaving just the points.

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Tags: chrome, fireworks, javascript

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