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A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3

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It is very annoying to see more and more pages that say use chrome to look at this page.

However this page seams to work fine in Firefox anyway. And it looked very cool :)

Reminds me of yesterday's chrome vs firefox debate ;)

Link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151180

Be warned - it's a lengthy debate ;)

I thought the days of "Optimized for IE 5.0 and 1024600" [0] were behind us and XHTML and then HTML5 would free us from browser vendors, or that information would at least be available on any browsers (glitters on or off). Graceful degradation anyone ?
As for that particular chrome experiment it's just spoken voices with some background music on my old mac :(. But it's enough :).
Still, I think a flash (gasp) scene would have done a better job. But maybe this site also works on tablets ?

[0] Optimized being defined here as "I can't make it work in Netscape and my layout only works on my 1024600 screen".

Hilariously it does not throw that warning if viewed in Chrome on iPhone, even though Chrome on iPhone just uses a slower version of the Safari rendering and JavaScript engines.

In fact on my iPhone, the page ran fine in mobile Safari, but completely bogged down in Chrome.

This is one example of why browser sniffing is not a great way to determine the actual capabilities of a browser.

Ok, I get it, we're all looking at page design and visualisation issues, which is the kind of thing we do here. But isn't anyone going to just marvel and express wonder and astonishment at the sheer majesty of the extraordinary achievements described in the videos?

This was definitely a fun project to be a part of (the reboot, not the chrome experiment). We out here at the Arecibo Observatory are proud to be a part of this moment in history. It was a joy to work with Dennis Wingo and his team, they are definitely cool guys.

A live webcast is running - http://spacecraftforall.com/live

Edit: Here's the Hangout link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtUIXPjVgk

I find it frustrating that one can only rotate the view within a limited range. Otherwise great work!

Doesn't work on latest Chrome at all, but works beautifully in my Firefox Nightly.

For others wondering how to escape this page on an iPhone, rotate to a vertical orientation to show the address bar, then tap the address bar to bring up the Safari controls.

This page is barely usable and almost fried my mac. Kinda reminds me websites built with flash. Is there any other way to watch that video about ISEE-3?

Though it says "Chrome Experiment", it seems to work mostly okay in Firefox, but occasionally some things seem to be missing from the view.

What an incredibly well done presentation.

Why are there loops in the heliocentric orbit?

Great Stuff!!

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