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Nice write-up from Ajaxian here http://ajaxian.com/archives/fun-friday-mullets-and-space-bat...

Holding down space didn't fire continuously, but instead scrolled me down the page.

Back button didn't work; had to click on a bookmark to leave.

Then it prompted me for a score, preventing me from leaving until I either hit escape or typed something in.

Sorry, but if a 7 year old kid wrote this in Flash I might be impressed. JavaScript has light-years to go before it's a viable platform for anything involving animation and graphics, for even the most cursory uses.

You miss the point. It is impressive because it's in pure javascript and everyone knows how hard it was to pull it off using javascript.

  >light-years to go before it's a viable platform
  >for anything involving animation and graphics

once all browsers support the canvas element (as does firefox3) its just a matter of time until some standard 2D animation libraries popup that will enable game development.

flash is ecmascript + proprietary set of libraries and a great IDE. but javascript has the advantage of coming out-of-the-box with the browser.

(and in the distant future there is Canvas 3D, which really is opengl exposed to JS :) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Canvas:3D )

> javascript has the advantage of coming out-of-the-box with the browser

Well sure, but you get a different js with every browser, and always will!

it's always a different superset. not too bad, and you always have that with different interpreters / compilers.

With Chrome, it only started when I used enter. Nice demo of what one can do with JavaScript and modern browsers. As other people mentioned, flash still wins, but I view this as very impressive.

The code needs quite a bit of polish, but as the author mentioned this was a quick hack.

Great demo, It even loads on my Android, I just can't start it without a keyboard. Wonder how well it would run.

Hey, it's using my favicon!

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