This is amazing.<p>Kind of like when I first dragged a window across multiple monitors in the 90s. We are so used to content being stuck in artificial containers that it's kind of crazy when it transcends them.
What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates?<p>This is a privacy leak. I have a 24" screen, and I don't keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I'm pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.
I remember this demo when Chrome first came out. I thought that was the coolest thing.<p>edit: I found the original site that I linked to this. Courtesy of archive.org: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicdesigns.com/2010/02/mind-blowing-javascript-experiments/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicd...</a>
I think the thing I like most about this is how it's evidently very imperfect - the ball sometimes goes missing, the rules for what velocity it needs to bounce from one window to another seem hazy, etc - but none of that really matters: it's fun and cool to play about with for a minute or two, it doesn't at all take itself seriously, and you know that any real implementation of this sort of thing, if there were an actual need for it, would be implemented more robustly anyway.
I made a project in college like this that utilized the Windows API to enumerate the rectangles of the windows and you could create shapes and other things that you can throw around your desktop<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qWXZ0hDv4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qWXZ0hDv4</a>
Everything was made to be broken. Got this neat effect where the ball was spinning rapidly in the corner of each spawned window! <a href="http://imgur.com/gmwQOCb" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/gmwQOCb</a>
I remember playing with this at least 8 years ago. It's really scary that there's enough information disclosure in browsers that it's possible to do this.
they did this with the birds in the wilderness downtown experiment like 5 years ago right? <a href="http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/</a>
Reminds me of the Amiga Boing Ball demo from 1984.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ga41edXw3A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ga41edXw3A</a>
Security issues aside, has anyone tackled how to intentionally span multiple monitors using similar techniques? e.g. A dedicated four monitor web-based media dashboard.
remembers one project that i did 4 years ago <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgA5EvOryU0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgA5EvOryU0</a>