Browser Pong

s1acker writes "Stewart Smith of Stewdio has created a version of Pong in HTML 5 and JavaScript, in which you play using the windows of your browser."

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[Hardness]

Works in Safari!! (Someone go test in Chrome now!)

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[owyn999]

Pre-Alpha Version of Opera 10.50 works wonderfully as well

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[oKtosiTe]

Really cool, I'm especially impressed it doesn't crash or mess up when you resize or close any of the windows; it responds as expected. Yes, it's cheating.

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[jbezorg]

Works in Firefox 3.5.5. Remember to allow pop-ups [mozilla.com] for the site.

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[Surt]

But not in 3.5.6 (yes, popups allowed) :-(

Slow news day, huh?

[Dwedit]

Javascript games are nothing new. Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.

I've even made a full clone of the original Atari 2600 game, "Adventure" in flash [dwedit.org]!

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[TheSambassador]

Did you even play the game? Of course flash games exist... Do we need a new acronym, PTFG instead of RTFA?

The point isn't even that it's a "retro" game recreated in a browser. It's just that it uses browser windows as the paddles, which is kind of cool and fun. You can even resize the height of the windows and it'll give you, in effect, a bigger paddle.

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[Mr. DOS]

Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.

...What?! Every game made in Flash uses the ActionScript [wikipedia.org] language, which is, as the Wikipedia page states, based on ECMAScript, but has a few key differences, one of the big ones being that it's object-oriented (whereas modern JavaScript just pretends to be).

--- Mr. DOS

Works fine in Chrome/Linux...

[elbbit]

...the only exception being the "player 2 wins" pop-up window was blocked.