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I Can't Belive it's Not Flash! Addictive game in under 200 lines of JS.

wholewheatweb.com — With the release of Prototype 1.6, and Scriptaculous 1.8, it's remarkable what you can do with so little Javascript. And it's _way_ more stable than the last major version!

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 10, 2007

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  • mikesbaker, on 11/13/2007, -9/+199I can believe that its not flash
  • Salgat, on 11/13/2007, -4/+154It's buggy though, click a single square multiple times and it glitches.
  • neuropsychguy, on 11/14/2007, -4/+121I'm going to get Dugg down for this but Flash would look and run (i.e., be more responsive) better.
    Granted, it's great for JS but, meh.
  • timdorr, on 11/11/2007, -3/+99Because it's not 200 lines of JS.

    http://wholewheatweb.com/javascripts/prototype.js That doesn't look like 200 lines to me...

    Also, it's 121KB!! That doesn't even count Scriptalicious :S

    JQuery and the full JQuery suite is under 100KB. Why exactly are people using Prototype still?
  • porplem, on 11/13/2007, -0/+50Sure does! My game sprung a leak: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1125/leakqr8.pn ...
  • MonsterChaOS, on 11/14/2007, -31/+72Awesome use of JS. Who needs flash anyway‽
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -12/+49I find Tiny Pacman more fun: http://www.guimp.com/pacman_flash.html
  • ImpactedColon, on 11/13/2007, -3/+38Better to fix a bug than to blog about it.
  • magicmarc, on 11/11/2007, -0/+31*you're*
  • aussieNickuss, on 11/11/2007, -1/+31*interrobang*
  • smee, on 11/14/2007, -3/+27people who don't want to run a 120k javascript app for something crappy you could write in flash with a lot less effort? why the hate on flash? the latest player has 90%+ penetration and allows some fantastic stuff
  • gerryk, on 11/11/2007, -0/+21Ok, just so you understand... CSS/Javascript != Ajax
  • geoken, on 11/14/2007, -1/+20Just to put an actual number out there, I pasted the code in timdorr's link into my text editor.

    Grand total: 4184 Lines
  • Stonekeeper, on 11/11/2007, -0/+19Gimp'd!
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+17He says as his web browser runs 12 scripts upon loading this page.
  • skinrock, on 11/11/2007, -1/+18It's pretty cool, but technically if you're using Prototype and Scriptaculous, it's not under 200 lines is it?
  • jveezy, on 11/11/2007, -1/+18Yes.

    http://chickensdoclap.com/images/Samegame1306.png

    Eat it.
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+16@ trinest: Your stupidity astonishes me
  • dahuf, on 11/11/2007, -3/+19No explanation except for the one in the beginning... i hope you're being sarcastic. It's the utter simplicity that's addicting!
  • mattcoady, on 11/11/2007, -0/+16Video displaying your score with you holding todays news paper or it didn't happen.
  • cococooky, on 11/12/2007, -4/+19WTF? Tiny alright, its only a 6mm square at my native resolution.
  • mentor972, on 11/11/2007, -2/+17"Your dugg."

    His dugg is what?
  • bitcloud, on 11/11/2007, -5/+19flash is closed... That's it's only flaw. If you could output into a machine readable, reverse engineerable format you'd have an amazing standard.

    This "ajax" elitism is using a hammer for the job of a screwdriver, just to please google...
  • solistus, on 11/12/2007, -0/+12Who doesn't use JS anymore? That's the most ridiculous web design claim I've heard in a long time. JS has become one of the most important web technologies due to the whole Web 2.0 thing. You know that nifty "AJAX" thing you've heard about? The thing that drives sites like Gmail and, well, Digg? Guess what? IT'S DONE IN JAVASCRIPT. Javascript is actually the ONLY required language for AJAX solutions; you can use any server-side script you want (PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc.), but Javascript is the only reliable option for user-side stuff.
  • NotOptium, on 11/11/2007, -2/+14Just because it's not flash doesn't make it a particularly good game.
  • bitcloud, on 11/11/2007, -3/+15oh awesome! he blogged about it!

    he could have ahm... you know.. made it in flash..
    nice proof of concept, but you're all slowing down the development of the internet by pretending everything can be done in javascript...
  • joe361, on 11/12/2007, -9/+20One word LAME.
  • xutopia, on 11/11/2007, -2/+11that's flash though.
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -1/+10The game itself isn't the point, dumb *****, it's the fact that it was made with JavaScript.
  • Renork, on 11/13/2007, -1/+10Pics or it didn't happen.
  • digitalpencil, on 11/11/2007, -0/+9Flash runs fine on Linux and OS/X
  • MellerTime, on 11/14/2007, -2/+11Agreed. Use the right tool for the right job, just like anything else...
  • evilpig, on 11/11/2007, -1/+9What digg is his?
  • I922sParkCir, on 11/11/2007, -0/+8My colourblindness make me sad. :(
  • Audacitor, on 11/11/2007, -1/+9**dugg**
  • copyland, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7because_we_can't_underline
  • brinkness, on 11/12/2007, -2/+9+1 for crafty JS
    -1 for causing firefox to consume my system resources after 6 games and driving the load up to 60
  • diggdick, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7we?
  • pault107, on 11/11/2007, -1/+8Emphasis.
  • mhusson, on 11/11/2007, -4/+11this is actually almost 8,000 lines of javascript. why wouldn't you consider javascript libraries part of your "lines of code" count?
  • ayeroxor, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7*which*
  • inactive, on 11/11/2007, -1/+8Good for javascript..but I am amazed at so many comments that seem to imply that no one has seen this game before. It has been around (called Boxxi usually) for at least 6-7 years. It is a Megatouch staple
  • arizonagroove, on 11/10/2007, -1/+7Because that wouldn't make for such a good headline! Are you new here? This is digg, accuracy of the headline doesn't matter so long as it sounds good.
  • mattus, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6Java != JavaScript.
  • mhusson, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6View > Page Source.
  • brentaun, on 11/11/2007, -3/+9Too bad Flash isn't going away anytime soon.
  • pault107, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7As much as this is interesting use of JS, the game is a pile of crap. Try just clicking around randomly and quickly - the game dies. I could knock this up in Flash in two or three hours and it would be bug free and probably smaller in file size.

    Check this screenshot to see had badly it fails (scroll down):

    http://www.zuubu.com/images/js_crap.png
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -1/+7to bad it doesn't keep score vs everyone else
  • digitalpencil, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5Seriously.. what's with all the hating on Flash? Granted it's often used in situtations that don't warrant it, but it's an amazing, light-weight & powerful platform offering great market plugin permeaton. AS3 has amazing potential as a language, video delivery could not be more accessible especially when crossed with flash comm server & in terms of interface design... some of the work out there is just flat-out art!
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