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A Game Played In the URL Bar
Kilrah_il writes "Whether you think it is useful or useless, you can't ignored the sheer cool geekiness of a game played entirely in the URL bar. From the article: '... While getting lost in a three dimensional virtual world amongst increasingly thoughtful plot and character development may be an adequate pastime for some, the only new title the gaming world should be talking about is URL Hunter, an experimental keyboard-character based game played entirely in your browser's URL bar.'"
Lordy lordy we be havin funz nowz !!
Amusing for a few seconds, this uses JS? :(
Disappointed that he didn't incorporate a blink tag somehow into the url bar though
4 animals in 23 seconds. Woohooo!
Dragon Age 2 by far.
Well that filled up my history nice and good.
to get back to slashdot.
it's a goatse mirror
goo.gl should be a give-away :)
Is it a good game? Not really. The gameplay is pretty awful, and the concept is naturally pretty limited. But it's clever and unusual, and highlights something that is both useful and not widespread enough (the ability to set navigation without leaving a loaded page) as well as something that is of questionable utility but novel (manipulation of an interface element that's currently guaranteed to exist in any desktop user agent to act as a presentation element).
People can dismiss it, as they have done and surely will do until this article falls below the fold, but it's pretty neat conceptually. It's not earth-shattering. Just neat.
Fucking troll.
This is a different game compared to the round of 'get around the filtering software' usually played in the URL bar.
I usually win more interesting stuff with that game.
If you use firefox, clear all the data from the last 1/2 hour and you should be good...
From just being on there, firefox stated 1,611 items of the site in history.
*mashes delete button*
Interesting concept, but not executed very well.
is the real game being played.
I've managed to avoid it for nearly a decade. I can't believe it was the old "color FreeCell bash script" that got me.
Twinstiq, game news
What is this digg? Where are the mods?
This is pretty evil to your history.
Also don't accidentally hit ESC multiple times when starting a new game.
Don't work.
just for the chuckle factor.
Goatse Alert ! (got me, dammit!)
(nt)
...for spreading malware (history crasher).
After trying the game, that link seems extremely appropriate actually.
I don't even have an URL bar. :'(
Working...
Are there any trusted URL shorteners? The link in my sig is shortened because it's too damn long to fit otherwise. I never thought about people avoiding it for fear of a ninja link.
Your brain is not a computer.
Use history.replaceState to avoid clogging people's browser history and effectively disabling their back buttons.
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Make 'em paranoid - but entertain them at the same time - love it!
Been there, done that, paid for the T-shirt
and didn't get it
More goatse?
While I admire the creativity, I have to wonder if this type of demonstration might be better placed in the status bar of the browser, rather than the address bar. I think it would give the same result without messing with history/URLs/etc
Can we get the IE9 and FF4 benchmarks for this? It's important.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
in lynx.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
yes
Back in the Xoom days (Webhost not tablet) most pokemon fansites would have javascript that would animate the status bar or have a raise a pokemon with an ascii pokemon in a textbox. I even wrote a javascript pokedex. I browsed hundreds of javascripts back at places like javascript source and dhtml drive back when IE6 wasn't even out for a over a year.
Get off my lawn and I'm only in my 20s.
DEFENDER played in the favicon.
http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
Seriously, everyone, open the link in an incognito window or similar if you have one, it eats into your history as soon as it starts.
Also, at risk of being called a punctuation Nazi, I am not very impressed with a website that describes itself using an apostrophe to indicate plural ("a's").
This is one of the simplest rules in English, as such things go, and I simply have doubts about people who get it so wrong.
Amusing for a few seconds, this uses JS?
Yep.
Here, I wrote a JavaScript: URL that creates a Tetris game at the top of whatever page you're on.
URL Tetris
Protip: Create a Bookmark, set the Location of the bookmark to the tetris code... Click the bookmark and play tetris on any web page.
Not totally sure why, but that reminds me of a very old Star Trek game we used to play on PDP 11 computers.
#DeleteChrome
(please excuse the self-reply)
In case anyone wanted to see the source code:
Here's the unencoded version of the URL Tetris.
That was a lot of fun. This version of Tetris was not stingy on the line pieces :)
Come on, do you really expect the intelligent people of slashdot to paste a highly-obfuscated blob of javascript from an untrusted party into their url bar?
I did a "stateless" CGI othello game back in like '94 that stored the game state in the URL. The difference is that I also displayed a board on the screen via HTML generated on the fly. Automatic reload in X seconds was used to have to computer make its response move. The back button worked too. Of course tons of people on /. did similar things back then too.
Ctl+shift+H to open history window
Type in the common keyword or url: "points" or "url hunter"
C-a all the selection and press delete
This also works well for other sites
do you really expect the intelligent people of slashdot to paste a highly-obfuscated blob of javascript from an untrusted party into their url bar?
Yes, because JS in a browser is sandboxed. It's not like running a shell/Perl/Python script with full user privileges.
http://notpron.org/notpron/ is also played in the URL bar. Most of the time.
What, no music? This plays well and I can't believe I pasted something unknown into my browser. If you can do this, certainly you can fix the gray text on gray background on Slashdot...
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
i did :D
warning pointless sig
I could see a really cool use of this on news sites- a scrolling ticker at the top of the page.
Sent from my CR-48
It's called "change the numbers to find more porn."
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Thank you for that snippet. Nice feature. Mod parent up - informative.
It's now been tested in Chromium.
The q(') key moves the piece to the right. The enter key drops the piece. The space bar will also drop the piece if there's nowhere to scroll down on the page behind it. The arrow keys do nothing unless there's somewhere to scroll the page left or right, in which case they do.
It's currently unplayable on Chromium due to these issues, but it's still a pretty impressive demo.
Chromium version is 11.0.696.3 (dev) Mandriva 2010.2 for the record. I get the same results from Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 on the same system.
It works well in Opera.
Version information
Version: 11.01 Build: 1190
Platform: Linux System: x86_64, 2.6.36.2-desktop-2mnb
Browser identification: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
Some of the lesser-known browsers:
So, I think there you have it. You support Firefox and Opera well right now. If you can figure out WebKit compatibility you should be able to waste everyone's time, as everyone should have at least one of Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Chromium, or Safari. If not, WebKit should also get those freaks with none of the mainstream browsers who happen to have Arora, Midori, or some other minor WebKit browser.
My Galeon installation is currently broken and not worth fixing with all these other browsers around, but I'm guessing it should work the same as a really old Firefox since it uses Gecko. I was unable to find a version of it newer than 2006 anyway, and that's ancient when talking about JavaScript in a browser. I read that the project was completely discontinued in 2008.
So, there's a testing report and a brief survey of the randomness installed on my systems for cross-browser testing purposes. HTH. HAND.
This sucks.
Looks Way Better than "change the numbers to get MS points"
Cross site scripting?
Please be more specific about what kind of cross-site scripting vulnerability you're thinking of, other than say some PHP page that forgot to htmlspecialchars() a field.
Impressive. Hat tipped in your direction, Sir.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
The fun thing about that game is, you never even know how many levels there are! Also, you don't have to beat a level to proceed to the next one...
This is better.
Reminds me of a game I played in uni where there was a clue as to the next URL on each page. A quick google didn't find it, but I'm pretty sure the name had something to do with being a hacker (coz who else knows how to use an address bar?)
Is 1563649 a prime number?
Come on, do you really expect the intelligent people of slashdot to paste a highly-obfuscated blob of javascript from an untrusted party into their url bar?
Luckily, the code didn't work in Opera at work on Windows. Phew!
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I made a similar thing in 2002, but even more limited because it used the one line of a grey pushbutton as both the input and the output of the game!
http://kirkjerk.com/features/gb.html
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
Could you explain what risk these intelligent people would be avoiding that they are not subjecting themselves to every time the click on link to an unknown site on Google?
To the point, what risk does Javascript in the URL bar pose that Javascript in the page not pose?
notpron.com
this is awesome, but needs more levels
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Brilliant! I like it! :-D Doesn't work 100% perfectly in Opera[1] though as pressing the right arrow makes the page scroll to the right, covering up the playing field.
[1](Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-GB) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01