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Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by Inufu on Monday June 11, 2012 @01:03PM (#4095604)
doesn't really work for me with Chrome on Windows 7 - an image flashes for a split-second, then it's back to "Finding pointer" (I'm not even touching my mouse)
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by AsylumWarden on Monday June 11, 2012 @01:26PM (#4095723)
Same here. Just flashes the picture really fast in the latest stable release of Chrome under Windows 7. Works beautifully in the latest Firefox though. Windows IE isn't supported at all apparently (I tried IE 9).

Are the developers willing to share some insight into how this works? The picture selection is right on and there seems to be a good number of pictures at that.

Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by zentiggr on Monday June 11, 2012 @01:29PM (#4095734)
Agreed - never quite settles to actually show anything, just keeps asking me to hold still even though my hand's off the mouse...
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by LoneWolf on Monday June 11, 2012 @04:50PM (#4096888)
Same problem windows 7 x64 Chrome 19.0.1084.52
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by simonbrown on Monday June 11, 2012 @01:22PM (#4095695)
It seems to work for me when I move the cursor off the page, though that misses the point.
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by tshadwell on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @03:35AM (#4099285)
Works fine in Chromium 21.0.1136.0 (136796).
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by saraid216 on Monday June 11, 2012 @06:04PM (#4097300)
Snow Leopard/Chrome 19 works fine.

Seems like it's Win/Chrome.

Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by Inufu on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:48PM (#4096529)
intersting: on Ubuntu 12.04, still with Chrome, it works
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by patrick_t on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:17AM (#4098742)
doesn't work on Windows 7 Chrome 20.0.1132.27
Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by jQueryIsAwesome on Monday June 11, 2012 @05:14PM (#4097063)
It looks like Chrome is firing the "mousemove" event when it shouldn't.

One way to make it work is to right click where you want it inside the square it and then left click anywhere outside the square.

In the Javascript looks like the error could be patched in Flasher.js line 72; save the last event.clientX and event.clientY and then check if the mouse coordinates have actually changed.

Re:PointerPointer: points to your cursor by sparknlaunch on Monday June 11, 2012 @09:42PM (#4098246)
Doesn't work in Chrome but the 'right mouse click' hack works.

There are likely some good opportunities for this code however speed of response may be a problem? Runs a little slow on my PC.