And lo On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:01:30 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

>>>> Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as
>>>> Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.
>>>
>>> I've already tried this. I can't figure out what the hell the point of
>>> it is... It just plays a looping video of somebody running down a
>>> street and shows a few birds flapping. (While at the same time
>>> bringing the entire PC to its knees for some reason.) What am I  
>>> missing?
>>
>> I don't see the looping video, but the birds scatter from the cursor.
>
> Oh, right. I couldn't tell; my PC was too busy dying. (Perhaps the VM I  
> was running this under has insufficient RAM?) All I know is that Flash  
> was doing that 10 years ago. I still don't see what all the fuss is  
> about.

Because it's using the HTML5 canvas with Javascript so no need for Flash;  
bye-bye plugins and the "You need to download the latest version of Flash"

-- 
Phil Cook

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