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"That's an ugly button"

me clicks on button

"Oh Wow, a BUTTON. How do you do that?"

"Hmpf... Javascript..."

For me who doesn't work with Java and the web, can some give a very brief why this is news?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_timing

The slow reveal is a surprisingly good use of a traditional comic form, which is morphologically similar to the arrow-with-rope ("why? because of the ..." ) in this Animaniacs clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arysfhdkfcU

(minor note: I believe the button is Javascript and WebGL (via three.js), not Java)

What am I looking at?

click the button for a neat animation

Make sure to have your sound on for the full experience.

Flickers has heck, is that intended? edit: safari 9 ios

Smooth for me on Chrome 45.0.2454.85

Smooth here too on Chrome.

Works fine for me in Safari. Stutters like mad in embedded Safari e.g. in Facebook

Cute. I like it. 8)

“I'm a Button”