Jabberwocky In ActionScript

VeryVito writes "You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up: It's not just for designers anymore, but for real, honest-to-goodness tech geeks. As evidence, I present The ActionScript Jabberwocky. Enjoy!" It's almost as good as reading it in the original Klingon.

Comments

Uhh

[lightdarkness]

I'm a tad confused, are we supposed to find this funny?

Re:Uhh

[DNS-and-BIND]

Much of the homemade "humor" on the internet is like this. Someone's good idea that doesn't really fly. It would have been good for a faint smile if it had been aimed at a much, MUCH narrower audience instead of at Slashdot.

Everyone thinks they can be The Onion, and they can't. Sorry guys.

The original...

[Black Parrot]

...made more sense.

Okay, but does it compile?

[Vo0k]

And if so, what does it do? I guess not much of an useful thing.
I think the Obfuscated C Code Contest poems in C were better, as they at least had to compile to something useful.

The tide has changed

[larsl]

I think it's been two years since I've had to email a webmaster and ask, "Flash only--WTF?" There are still some rubes in non-tech industries that load up on Flash crap, but isn't Flash mostly an anachronism these days?

Re:The tide has changed

[PhoenixFlare]

but isn't Flash mostly an anachronism these days?

Only if you hold to the attitude that if you don't like or find something useful, then nobody else could possibly get any value out of it.

Which seems to be all too common around here, sadly.

Flash can be a great tool for animation, games, and even site navigation if used properly.

True geeks?

[dmayle]

You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up

Quite the contrary. I'll believe it's beginning to grow up when I see a non-Macromedia plugin, and someone's ported DeCSS to it... ;)

The Hunting of the Snark

[panurge]

To be proper Flash, this needs massive load times. What about doing the Hunting of the Snark?

Actually, Dodgson needs to be encoded in a seriously object oriented language. The various characters have methods and properties...it'll look better after I've slept on it.

Re:Dodgy URLs on Slashdot?

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

May I please ask, for the benefit of those of use whose web URLs are logged at work

Might I ask that to avoid being a luser you look to see what you are clicking on and don't depend on the admins to hold your hand? Seriously, that attitude is WHY viruses and trojans spread (albeit different circumstances)

Re:Actionscript login systems

[Jotham]

So basically...

Flash allows me to use if statements
Some people use this to write if (answer=="Password") {...
therefore I should be wary of flash

And this is modded as Insightful?

Just another, "You can do stupid things in Flash, therefore Flash is bad", post. Wouldn't the better lesson to be learnt be, don't trust client-side code as security.

PS. Drag a C/C++ program in notepad and you can see all it's ASCII strings too...

Click to View is better...

[FooAtWFU]

I prefer the Flash Click to View extension for Firefox (although I haven't seen a version for 0.9! WHERE'S MY VERSION FOR 0.9?!?!?!). This replaces the Flashiness with abig grey button I can click if I want it to show for some reason (the inane web site). I find that WITHOUT the plugin, I get message boxes complaining about the lack of the plugin far too often.