box2d-jquery
Languages and libraries
javascript library
SHOW HN2012
167points
39comments
#106of 1,677 in 2012
Top 7%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
7 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and impressive demo
From 4 comments
Very cool! I created a small bookmarklet that injects it into the system we're developing over here. It's nice to amaze some colleagues real quick. ;) ```…
asm89 on HNOh my god, I will troll my colleagues with this so hard. I'll add this to our website cms for their IP only and watch them panic "Why is our website falling apart?"...
BonoboBoner on HNWow very nice. I want to read what it says but I have a hard time keeping the whole thing still! I have some wicked ideas for this.
egfx on HNI don't know how this is useful, but I want to use it!
robmclarty on HN
Bookmarklet ideas for existing sites
From 3 comments
Very cool! I created a small bookmarklet that injects it into the system we're developing over here. It's nice to amaze some colleagues real quick. ;) ```…
asm89 on HNSomebody please make a bookmarklet out of this.
olegp on HNA quick and dirty one that only affects h1, divs and imgs (based off the example on the github page):…
orng on HN
Objections
Slow performance, especially on deeply nested or many elements
From 4 comments
So slow on my browser. Back to native applications coding.
pjmlp on HNThis is great, but it seems a little slower than the raw box2d. Is it doing anything else on each animation loop?
toomim on HNIn most sites those three are enough to crash the tab/browser.
jQueryIsAwesome on HNdivs are an issue, because divs commonly include other divs commonly include other divs commonly include other divs .... jquery-box2d does not animate the DOM of the webpage you…
franze on HN
Physics results appear deterministic, not random on reload
From 1 comment
Forgive me if I am wrong, but shouldn't a true physics engine not behave exactly the same way every time? I refreshed 5 times and every time the word Hey ended up vertical…
nodesocket on HN
Requests
Collision events
From 2 comments
Does this have collision events? So if A hits B is there a way of knowing?
brador on HNnext version will include collision detection (when to elements colide some custom DOM event will be thrown), so we can start to implement simple (to complex) game logic into the…
franze on HN
Bookmarklet version
From 1 comment
Somebody please make a bookmarklet out of this.
olegp on HN
Questions
Does it support collision events?
From 1 comment
Does this have collision events? So if A hits B is there a way of knowing?
brador on HN
Why is it slower than raw box2d?
From 1 comment
This is great, but it seems a little slower than the raw box2d. Is it doing anything else on each animation loop?
toomim on HN
Alternatives named
Google Gravity Chrome experiment
From 1 comment
There's something similar for Google search — http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/
nwh on HN