[Moderator]

This was linked to from /. But go to this site and check out what happens..I'm guessing it doesn't do this for Windows..kinda cool but I could see this getting out of hand, its almost, borderline invasive....having said that, anyone know how its done?

http://www.pompeiisites.org/

[Chris O'Brien]

You mean the fact that it shakes the window? It'll just be a little bit of JavaScript, with window.moveTo/By(); being the main part of it

Nice and simple - and it'll work on Windows too (unless for some reason they specifically exclude Windows browsers...)

Edit: In fact, here's the code behind it:

Code:
function shake_xy(n) {
    if (self.moveBy) {
        for (i = 10; i > 0; i--) {
	    for (j = n; j > 0; j--) {
		self.moveBy(0,i);
		self.moveBy(i,0);
		self.moveBy(0,-i);
		self.moveBy(-i,0);
            }
        }
    }
}

Which is called onload.

[Edited again because there's no point in the other two functions...]

[badidea]

Originally posted by Moderator:
..I'm guessing it doesn't do this for Windows..

You guessed wrong! (if you mean what I think you mean...)

[MilkmanDan]

That is annoying.

[Moderator]

Originally posted by badidea:
You guessed wrong! (if you mean what I think you mean...)

guess so...I thought Windows lacked the ability to animate itself like that...I figured if it did it'd have an Expose like feature by now...maybe it does..I don't know sh_t about Windows.

At any rate, I see browser hi-jacking in my not so distant future...maybe Apple will give us the option to block

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Moderator:
guess so...I thought Windows lacked the ability to animate itself like that...I figured if it did it'd have an Expose like feature by now...maybe it does..I don't know sh_t about Windows.

At any rate, I see browser hi-jacking in my not so distant future...maybe Apple will give us the option to block

It's not really "animating itself" - it's simply a script that tells the browser to move the window. Just like you can resize the size of a pop-up window through JavaScript (for instance), you can also get the current window to move, that's all this does. It just moves more than one time.

As for stats, it doesn't work in Opera. It works in IE and Netscape, although in Netscape it also, for some reason, resizes the window after shaking it around a little. Dunno about FireFox, won't run anymore

[SamuraiDL]

tis cool

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally posted by Moderator:
This was linked to from /. But go to this site and check out what happens..I'm guessing it doesn't do this for Windows..kinda cool but I could see this getting out of hand, its almost, borderline invasive....having said that, anyone know how its done?

http://www.pompeiisites.org/

I'm not seeing anything special other than a normal series of web pages. What should I be seeing? (running Safari in 10.3.5)

[wataru]

I hate that crap. Luckily Firefox lets you turn off most of those annoying JavaScript effects.

[xi_hyperon]

That's a pretty old trick actually.

[Twilly Spree]

heh neat

[MacMan4000]

this is the only good use of that trick:
Dub Dub
to get the full effect you NEED to view this in Windows. It is MUCH funnier in Windows. Mac browsers don't do it right, I tested em all.

[skalie]

Originally posted by MacMan4000:
this is the only good use of that trick:

I beg to differ....

NOT SAFE FOR WORK

[paully dub]

Originally posted by skalie:
I beg to differ....

NOT SAFE FOR WORK

*lights a cigarette*

[AKcrab]

I like this one:
http://www.lebonze.co.uk/stuff/move.htm

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Old trick but it totally makes me feel ill.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by AKcrab:
I like this one:
http://www.lebonze.co.uk/stuff/move.htm

Yep, a classic.

[bstone]

Originally posted by Moderator:
This was linked to from /. But go to this site and check out what happens..I'm guessing it doesn't do this for Windows..kinda cool but I could see this getting out of hand, its almost, borderline invasive....having said that, anyone know how its done?

http://www.pompeiisites.org/

I think it's funny that your nick is "Moderator" but you not. And you're from BOston.

[moonmonkey]

This site does it too click the "shake well" bit at the top.
http://www.drinkmars.com/