Monthly Archives:: August 2009

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One of the things that fascinated me most about computers since I was a teen, was their ability to simulate a three-dimensional space where one could move around in.

That’s why I was so intrigued when I read Jacob Seidelin’s post about “Creating pseudo 3D Games“. I had to play around with it, as I wanted to have mouse control in it, but performance was so bad that it was impossible. So I laid aside that idea. Eventually, he continued this project and used it for something pretty awesome called “WolfenFlickr“, where you can walk around and look at Flickr photos, attached to walls. As I said, pretty awesome.

Anyway, what I wanted was mouse navigation and strafe keys, as you have it in shooters – this kind of moving around always gives me the feeling of being “free“ in a way. Experiencing that freedom in a web page (w/o flash, of course) was still on my mind.

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Safari console screenshot

Update: If you are interested in how to make window.open work you might want to also read the follow-up: Safari and window.open – How to do it

Working on a project these days, I noticed that the only call to window.open in that app did not work in Safari. Looking into it, I found that it was Safari’s popup blocker that wouldn’t let that call succeed.

Usually, I don’t deal with window.open, so that behaviour was new to me, and I asked Mr. Google what he knew on this. Not much, as it turned out out – I found only two interesting notes on it. One was pretty strange and I guess it was more about a Safari 3 beta not returning a window object. The other one proposed the the window.open call had to be within the same function body as the method handling the event. The comments on that post affirmed this suspicion, but I decided to look into it myself.

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