Stupid javascript trick

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Copy the code below into your address bar and all the images on this page will dance around. You’ll have to remove the line break that I added in to prevent anyone’s browser from accidentally executing it.


javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.i
mages; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

Here are some images to watch dance:

:slight_smile: :rolleyes: :cool: :stuck_out_tongue: :dubious: :wink: :smack: :smiley: :confused: :o :eek: :frowning: :mad:

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Doesn’t work right for me. It bunches up all the smilies in one spot and that’s it. Windows XP, Firefox 1.5 browser.

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Pretty cool trick. I ran it on Opera and it worked fine.

Sgt Schwartz

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Looks like it’s happier in IE. Doesn’t work in Firefox, not even with the IE-Tab extension. Works fine in IE though.

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Didn’t work for me in IE or FF 1.5.

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What version of IE are you using?

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I think it’s 6; I know we haven’t downloaded 7. How can I find out for sure?

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Try appending +“px” to the DIS.top and DIS.left assignments. (These are CSS styles, which according to the standards require units, unlike HTML where pixel values are often given with no units.) That is:


javascript:R=0;x1=.1;y1=.05;x2=.25;y2=.24;x3=1.6;y3=.24;x4=300;y4=200;x5=300;y5=200;DI=document.i
mages;DIL=DI.length;function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI*.style;DIS.position='absolute';DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px";DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5);void(0);
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That is wild. It works for me in IE 6.0 and FF 2.0.0.1. www.lileks.com works nauseatingly well!

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Whoops the one place that it doesn’t work is on the dope in Firefox. IE is fine.

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The second version works for me in FF 2.0. That is …mindblowing.

I have go to figure out how it works, and then annoy my friends when they visit my webpages. :smiley:

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Bingo. That fixed it for me.

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Help > About Internet Explorer will show you the version number.

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I’m surprised it worked in Opera then. Thanks for the fix.

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All my browser does is “boop”. Page doesn’t change. Shiira 1.2.1, OS X 10.4.8

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Firefox doesn’t do anything with it either.

Nor Opera.

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Safari made everything move around in circles. 'Twas odd.

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Made a bookmarklet of it. Now to have some fun with google image search.

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That is really f’n weird, dude. How (why) on earth did you come up with that?

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I can’t claim credit for this one. I saw it on another message board and thought it might be entertaining to share.

I didn’t realize that you could type code into the address bar like that and modify the current page. I will have to play around with this a bit.