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Most impressive Javascript I've ever seen
When I was a kid, I spent lot of time coding on my Amiga 500 visual effects called demos. I had much fun with demos and it was a great way to learn coding. I still spend a bit of my time to look at the actual productions or read technical articles on demo effects.It's very boring to use a technology to do what it is designed for. Abusing the browsers DOM + Javascript is also something possible but very hard to achieve. Why ? because browsers are designed to display styled boxes and text and nothing else. For instance, drawing a line or a bitmap is very hard to achieve without dirty tricks that are very expensive to perform, think of implementing the Bresenham line algorithm to draw a line using the DOM as a rendering technology.
I found in the past a few abuse of DOM+JS that went in that direction such as "Super Mario" remakes, but I was not much impressed... until today!
The demo is called Neja and it's coded by Ribon and Bomb! Even my Macbookpro finds it impressive because it really excites the laptop's fan :-) . It worked well only in Firefox and in did not work fully in Safari. You can check it online here, enjoy!