![]() It started off last weekend with a vague idea about matching patterns of numbers and old-school graphics and I don't know what and ended up with this. Honestly, I have no idea what I was going for with this one. That way, when the screensaver starts, it checks for connectivity then displays a screensaver that doesn't require a connection. ![]() There should also be a checkbox to mark demos as 'works offline'. The ideal screensaver would allow you to enter several different URLs to allow you to easily save them. Just in case someone in the comments finds a WebGL-capable screensaver, here are the demos I liked that require WebGL. The Single Lane Superhighway by Aaron Koblin and Mr.doob If you can point me to a WebKit-based one, I'll include that instead. This one seems to be based on IE so it probably won't work with the canvas-based demos below. Maybe someone can fork Chromium to make it do this. Unfortunately, this uses plain-old standard WebKit so no WebGL demos. Of course, you can't just set any old demo as your screensaver, many of them rely on user interaction which kinda defeats the purpose. You can probably figure out where I'm heading with this: these would make cool screensavers.Ī quick bit of googling later and I found a couple of applications that let you set a web-page fullscreen as your screensaver. Since I started writing for CreativeJS, I've seen a lot more examples of clever, cool, pretty and downright creative demos and toys written in JS than I ever had before. There aren't that many opportunities for me to appreciate a warp-speed starfield or some infinite pipes. On top of that, in my case, I'm either at my desk coding or at the coffee machine refilling. ![]() Sure, they made sense when you needed to avoid burning a ghost of the windows start bar into your CRT monitor but with TFTs, LEDs, projectors, OLEDs and whatever else, it's rare you'll find hardware that actually needs protecting like that any more. I don't find myself using screensavers that much these days. ![]()
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