Comments on: Infinite Gangnam Style: realtime, beat-matched remix that goes on forever

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:08:00 +0000

Preaching to the choir.

By: elix

elix — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:54:00 +0000

This is the best thing ever that I’ve found this week.

By: elix

elix — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:35:00 +0000

As someone who had to deal with a great many tools that were built only for IE6, and someone who had the pleasure of building a very useful tool (that went completely unappreciated in any official capacity, even a slip of paper) in the same environment, I can tell you that it’s much more likely that critical intranet tools (or even Internet-facing, which may or may not be a horror show in its own right) were built in the era of XP/IE6 when Firefox was still a little snotling of a browser.

“Standards compliance” was a term that inspired laughter back then, and IE was notoriously bad about obeying the HTML specifications, and instead, it had all sorts of quirks and rendering bugs that you needed to be aware of if you wanted to make a web2.0-y tool, or even a reasonably sophisticated web1.0 tool. Having to handle all the weird exceptions and ugly dirty programming tricks necessary to keep IE6 happy meant that your code was incredibly fragile, and it would typically look and act strange, if it worked at all, if you tried to use any other browser.

And some people didn’t learn the lesson with future versions, I guess.

By: UncaScrooge

UncaScrooge — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:38:00 +0000

Ha ha! Old people listen to music made by people.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:57:00 +0000

No, it just requires the most modern browsers, ones that are up to date with recent standards. Other browsers will catch up in due time.

This is entirely different from a site supporting only a specific browser because it wants to hook into some stupid non-standard “feature” offered by that browser.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000

That’s crazy. I’m guessing they use Active X? That shit should have died a decade ago.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:08:00 +0000

Na, there are work-related sites I need that require IE. It’s a hellish nightmare, I tell you.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:08:00 +0000

“And if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:49:00 +0000

The difference of course being that now you need specific browsers to view fun web experiments – rather than interact with your bank, or check your email.

By: Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Wow, it requires a specific version of Chrome. Feels like 2002 all over again!

By: Mike Meyer

Mike Meyer — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:09:00 +0000

Um, given that the beat for the song is fairly repetitive to begin with, is this really all that noteworthy? It is seamless, I”ll grant you, but that’s pretty easy when there’s only a few sections of the song that differ.

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:27:00 +0000

Can we get the mashup with LMFAO done this way?

By: Scott Simmie

Scott Simmie — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:40:00 +0000

At last: a soundtrack for purgatory.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:06:00 +0000

Now it just needs the music video without the music soundtrack to be complete. Randomly-sequenced ambient noises FTW!

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:34:00 +0000

That crap has already gone on forever.