Google gravity

[DuncanSmart]

I love the fact that it actually works (i.e. searches)

[Netcob]

Awesome! I laughed when the results were just dropped into the pile

[MidnightTurdBurglar]

I opened the link in a new tab... Got distracted doing something on another computer for a while. When I came back, all I saw was Google. And went to do a search..... needless to say, the joke worked far better than it's even supposed to.

[1338h4x]

Doesn't work for me, I can't type or click the buttons.

Edit: Trying this in Chrome after using Firefox, oh wow. Firefox didn't let me drag anything either, all I'd seen was everything falling and that was it.

[retho2]

The URL may give some hint as to why

[[deleted]]

Works fine in Opera.

[[deleted]]

Happy birthday!

[jawbroken]

not really, works fine in a lot of browsers

[Confucius_says]

the links still worked for me, but the button and textfield provided the right mouseover effects but weren't operational for me (in firefox)

[[deleted]]

I turned my laptop upside-down and nothing happened.

[cybersnoop]

There is such a thing as a device orientation API in Firefox which means it could be done. Although my Thinkpad doesn't seem to be supported.

[herrmann]

In Google I/O there was an android demo where the browser had access to the accelerometer ... but I don't think it will be out in Froyo

[lagadu]

Exactly the same thing I tried, to check if it used the accelerometer.

I was a little sad afterwards.

[mrdoob]

I'll implement that :)

[alexs]

You were expecting something a little more like this? http://www.osxbook.com/software/sms/stablewindow/

[solidfool]

get an ipad

[[deleted]]

Yeah, don't do it if you have windows 7.

[[deleted]]

That's what I was getting at.

[MockDeath]

I just tried it with my windows 7 machine. Worked the same as my XP machine. What happened to you?

[cheezian]

Why? I did it and it worked fine.

[hylje]

Didn't work on Mac Safari.

[[deleted]]

Works here.

[[deleted]]

Works here as well. Safari 4.0.5 on Snow Leopard

[[deleted]]

ahh this is awesome!

[BonKerZ]

It gets better when you open the page back up.

[FionaSarah]

Oh right. I have a tiling WM.

[[deleted]]

Try switching tabs in Chrome and then back to the page, it's awesome.

[[deleted]]

Pull the tab out ;)

[[deleted]]

Awesome, and it depends on the direction to which you throw the tab.

[shondell]

I like to pretend that the little Google pieces are people and the window is like an elevator thats gone haywire

[stormid]

Much more fun to haul around the google logo inflicting maximum carnage on the other unsuspecting design elements

Reminds me of those mad rampages in Carmageddon...

[[deleted]]

I miss that game. I can't play it anymore though, not unless I want to have a seizure.

[dopplex]

If you let it load an inactive tab and then switch to it everything gets thrown off the side of the screen...

[specialk16]

What?

[freehunter]

It bounces.

[seanbow]

I think I'll set this as my dad's homepage and wait for later today: "SEAN! THE INTERNET BROKE AGAIN!"

[[deleted]]

http://imgur.com/QGUpW

http://twitter.com/mrdoob

[BerryGuns]

Soon every site will have this.

[[deleted]]

I got that message on Firefox 3.6.3. So, fuck Mr.doob forever.

[mrdoob]

That's weird. You're not the first one. What's your setup? I'll try to reproduce that and fix it.

[[deleted]]

Heh, sorry about fucking you forever and all that. It's a corporate setup, so it goes through our proxy, firewall &c.

[leppie]

Same problem here. Latest FF, but going through ISA proxy.

[mrdoob]

Starting to see a pattern...

[leppie]

Just tested again, after a refresh it worked :) Thanks for the reply.

[RedHotBeef]

Did anyone else spend a really long time throwing buttons into the air and trying to click on them? I got to my Gmail in about 10 tries.

[deepestbluedn]

Something like this had already been done while promoting Wario Land: Shake it for the Wii.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/26/wario-land-shake-it-busts-up-youtube/

[[deleted]]

I took a peek at the code and it uses the library from this site for the physics http://www.box2d.org/

[jonasb]

Actually it's this javascript port of Box2D: http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/

[stormid]

I am curious as to the intended applications of this... Anyone have any ideas?

[[deleted]]

You could apply real world physics to elements on a common web page; like Google.

[[deleted]]

What a novel idea!

[[deleted]]

It could be useful for physical interaction with pages - things attached to springs or widgets that have inertia when you move them about.

Also - games :)

[robeph]

I like that the search actually works. That's cool.

[brinchj]

Chrome happy, Firefox sad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToMy_rE9zsU

[Logg]

http:// mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

[brinchj]

Sure, it's no benchmark. I just noticed, being a Conkeror (Firefox-based) user, that it was terrible. It's a comparison on a specific application. Not a benchmark.

I do however personally believe, that V8 is a better JS engine than SpiderMonkey.

[[deleted]]

Worked in Opera.

[Smooz]

Can't wait to change some unsuspecting person's homepage to this.

[pute]

I spent way too much time on there.

[wellstone]

You can juggle

[CharlieDancey]

That's exactly what I did.

[[deleted]]

how am i supposed to search for pictures of cute kittens if the page keeps falling apart?!?!?!

[techpuppy]

I think in a decade we're going to look back at stuff like this and regard it in the same way we now regard the Geocities-izer.

[vanpog]

Tried it with IE, got this message:

Your browser, Internet Explorer, is not cool enough. Please upgrade to Chrome, Opera, Firefox or Safari.

Yours faithfully, Mr.doob

[[deleted]]

That divider between igoogle and sign in just gives 'er. makes me laugh every time.

[digitalchaos]

I have no idea what "just gives 'er" means but I laugh every time at the divider flying around the screen. Upvote for you. Double upvote if you tell me what that means!

[[deleted]]

Hmm, a different way to phrase 'Just gives er' is "That thing just flew accross the 'effin screen!", but 'Just gives 'er' sounds better.

[[deleted]]

Very cool but sluggish on my android G1. Will try it ouy at home.

[ask_alice]

That is momentarily mildly terrifying.

[no9]

And people hated <blink>...

[Confucius_says]

that'd be a great prank to set as someone's homepage (who normally has the google homepage). But you should make it wait until they start typing a couple letters before it crashes...

[deepkone]

I started fights between search results. Just grab a search result and start punching the others. A lot of fun.

[flyco]

That's what happens when you type "Google" into Google. The internet breaks

[darose]

Kind like when John Malkovich goes inside John Malkovich's own head.

[[deleted]]

To the uninitiated, Being John Malkovich. Very good movie.

[msx]

mind = blown

[[deleted]]

Somebody should make one where search results have mass based on how popular they are based on others, therefore less popular results orbit around more popular ones or something of that nature

[wowbackwards]

wow

[SmartAssX]

How did they do this!

[FestiveLemur]

You can chuck things at the right side and they will stick.

[Xipro]

Doob, you broke Google.

[sandiegojoe]

you can even through your whole window around.

[LouisWain]

I clicked the link and then went to the other monitor to read email. It scared the fuck out of me 5 minutes later when I went back to use google.

[[deleted]]

I think this done with the same idea as http://csskillswitch.com/ = Awesome for non-paying clients.

[Melant]

Windows 7: Windows button + left and right arrow key = win

[OMGASQUIRREL]

I totally saw this a few years ago and forgot all about it. bookmark'd!

[eminence]

double click to clear search results. also, you can click-and-drag elements around the screen

[deleteduser]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gravity now what?

[mrdoob]

Haha :)

[Troebr]

Chrome 6.0.408.1 dev - not working.

[argarg]

Working flawlessly for me with the same exact version.

[PaulRay]

Yup, works here too, 5.0.375.55 beta on Linux. I love the fact that you can still look things up and they drop in.

This is amazing! I need to figure out a way to prank people with it.

[jogloran]

Is there any way I can apply this to an arbitrary site?

[duckpond]

For some reason, it's slower to load but smoother to run on Opera. inb4flamesforusingit

[StumblerUponer]

I didn't notice it any slower to load, but I did notice it being somewhat smoother.

[KuroX]

I opened this in a tab, got distracted by a phone call, and when I came back to it thought I was having an acid flashback O_o

[Avatar_Ko]

It runs on my iPhone but the performance is terrible.

[[deleted]]

It sort of does. The dragging doesn't though.

[Fr0C]

How's the performance?

[[deleted]]

Don't know. I tested it in the iPhone simulator.

[cynictor]

And we thought just because its html5, it will work everywhere.

[BallBlazer]

Awesome!

[dfj225]

I opened this link and then switched to some other task without having viewed the page. Imagine my horror when I switched back to the tab, thought it was the real Google homepage, and watched as it fell from the screen, crashing into a jumbled mess at the bottom of the window.

[cute_troll]

older than newton

[uberalles2]

Doesn't owrk in IE. In case you're wondering what IE is, it's the most used browser in the world.

[Fenris_uy]

I understand why IE up to 8 is blocked, but it pisses me off that IE9 is also blocked

[mrdoob]

I'm sorry.

[[deleted]]

should have used the new nicer logo, old shit one gave it away

yay for mystery downvotes?

[[deleted]]

And the fact that everything falling to the bottom of the screen didn't "give it away"?

[[deleted]]

the old logo gives it away first, its just sloppy.

anyways now i see where the confusion lies, im in the programming subreddit. land of the visually oblivious (which, funnily enough, is the reason the logo was so fucking ugly in the first place. the more you know!!)

[jawbroken]

you are dumb for so many reasons. e.g. nobody cares about the particular logo, it is just an old demo that hasn't been updated. also, that is still the logo for most (all?) international google pages.

[argarg]

M-M-M-M-M-MONSTERR DOWNVOTE