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Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by mkramlich on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:27PM (#2228832)
Needs to become an item inside Minecraft.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by xtacy on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:41PM (#2228658)
Can someone throw light as to how this is done? It seems to use the native Safari app, unless I am wrong.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by modernerd on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:32PM (#2228848)
It uses WebKit rebuilt with 8-bit png image assets, combined with the PixelMix font[1] and what appears to be a custom library called 'Pixelifier'[2]. Very clever.

[1] http://www.dafont.com/pixelmix.font [2] (Examined package contents and found 'PixelifierDynamic.dylib')

Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by othermaciej on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:09PM (#2228998)
Adorable. Some folks on the team were sad that it does not pixellate videos (yet?).
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by freedrull on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:57PM (#2228956)
Why don't you just use Dillo. :P
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by limmeau on Thursday February 17, 2011 @04:09AM (#2230359)
That reminds me of the good old 80s, when URLs were 8+3, web pages were scripted in GW-BASIC, and we spent our youthful evenings in Space Quest Online.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by erickhill on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @11:05PM (#2229692)
Would love a version of Safari that looks like it came from a Vectrex, too (think Tempest).
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by taylorbuley on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:49PM (#2229304)
Finally I find something I want to use with Geocities but, alas, I am too late.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by georgemcfly on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:48AM (#2231068)
low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by NathanKP on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:47PM (#2228693)
It launched but almost instantly crashed.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by wmf on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:50PM (#2228697)
Are you running on a 64-bit computer? That might be too many bits; try running on an 8-bit machine.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by templaedhel on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:57PM (#2228731)
Or open 8 more copies, that should be enough bits right?
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by DavidSJ on Thursday February 17, 2011 @01:19AM (#2230022)
7 more.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by ot on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:08PM (#2228996)
I thought it would be 8 times faster instead
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by Udo on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:06PM (#2228991)
Yeah, same here. But it did open and stay alive on the third launch, probably some initialization issue.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by jamesbkel on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:37PM (#2229088)
Same here, worked second time fine.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by ashleyw on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:55PM (#2228952)
Using a 32bit OS? Crashes on my 2006 Core-Duo MBP too.
Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by jacknagel on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @09:16PM (#2229390)
I have a 2006 Core Duo MBP also. Running file on the binary produces this:

Pixelfari: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Guess I'll have to find a 64-bit Mac so that I can play with it.

Re:Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven... by smbwrs on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @10:03PM (#2229524)
Not every idea is a good one.