Contad: SVG + CSS3 craziness

So I started writing something about how we were supposed to get away from the awfulness of flash, and it's stupidities like long loading screens, with CSS3 and HTML5. But I viewed the source and this is flash. Well the loading screen is. You see it's currently downloaded 4Mb across 2 .swf files and it's only about... a third of the way through, although it's hard to tell on the "fill in the word" progress bar.

My third-world 2Mbit internet connection doesn't seem to be up to scratch. At least my web browser is if the browser checking code has already run. This is like c2001 except then we did "if (ie) {} else if (ns) { }"

I hate to complain without actually having seen the subject matter, but flash, loading screens and "if (chrome) else { fail }" is harking back to a bad past.

Edit: I think the download died at just under 5 Mb. I guess my 2Mb internet really isn't up to scratch.

Here's a native (non-flash) version that supposedly also works in Firefox and Safari

http://dabblet.com/gist/6046779

Made by Verou: https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/358726425454444545

I strongly contest that Chrome is the 'world's best browser'.

>This site is running only on the world's best browser

Wow. Why don't people use feature detection or something? I don't understand the rise in vendor locking websites to Chrome.

I think we should just outright abolish the user-agent.

Loaded it in Firefox and was told I needed to download Chrome.

Loaded it in Chrome and was told I needed to download... Chrome.

Guess my Chrome isn't bling enough.

Quite funny. I attempted to load this in Chrome and I still get 'This site is running only on the world's best browser' with a link to download, ironically, Chrome.

It's like the old, only works in IE days!

> This site is running only on the world's best browser

Not worth my time

Runs horribly on the world's real best browser.

Took a while to load but it scroll surprisingly smoothly. The sign-up button takes me to a wikipedia page about contextual advertising. Is that intentional?

And for those who can't view the project, try the post about it (from their homepage) : http://www.freeger.com/project.php?projectid=174

Agree with comments above- doesn't even run in my Chrome, Ubuntu 12.04

I don't understand how the number of people who viewed this yesterday goes up. Shouldn't that be a fixed metric? If it's just a demo, maybe some better number to demo would be better.

"This site is running only on the world's best browser", the new "Well it runs fine on my computer so...".

Other than that, nice piece of work!

hmm. Amazing what the front page can do for a story, even if that story doesn't deserve it.

I don't really like it.

What irks is that it tells you "scroll down to proceed" but then you can't scroll back up and control what's going on. Why not keep the page fixed and have the content within in scrolling? You know, like in a video?

Looks like it was flash and then converted with Swiffy: https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

By the way: Top browsers in Germany http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-201206-201306

Sites that do autodetect and ban access on the result are BAD BAD BAD. You can detect them and add a banner to inform the user the site might not work, and even explain why.

Also bad is using flash to detect it!

Pretty amazing and perfect execution. Runs perfectly in OSX Chrome.

Runs fine in Arch Chrome... though Contad Presents (the first bit) is centered based on window height. I didn't even see it until I made my Chrome window wider.

why does chrome think the page is in Russian?

super cool design and website. only one gripe. it took over a minute to load. not many people will wait.

ok, background music that can not be turned off? WHY?

Echoes of gabocorp.

I want my bandwidth back. Two thumbs down. Boooo. BOOOOOOOOO! Good DAY sir.