"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout

Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by iku on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:48AM (#48245076)

I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by zhxiaoliang on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:50AM (#48245343)

LOL sorry my bad. Should have been more specific. It’s a demo of my layout library. The stick figure is made with a few primitives to form a so-called exclusion assembly which causes texts to flow around them. But what’s unique about it is that these primitive parts can be controlled independently via programmatic control. This turns them into a little rig essentially. I thought it was funny and could be even useful so I shared it.

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by zhxiaoliang on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:31AM (#48245551)

It's strange that happened. I had no issue loading it on my iPhone 16e in Safari or Chrome... Could it be somehow your browser prevent Javascript from loading?

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by ThrowawayTestr on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:31AM (#48245260)

Whenever a web page doesn't work I try a different browser. You can do that on an iPhone right?

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by zhxiaoliang on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:29AM (#48245543)

I did not make the demo specifically for mobile browsers, but it does work rather well on my iPhone 16e with Safari and Chrome. I also tried it on my Pixel 10 and did not encounter any issues. The library itself is tiny ~250K so it should load right away.

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by tlarkworthy on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:35AM (#48245574)

It kills drag scroll over the flow text on my android

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by mpalmer on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:35PM (#48251786)

iPhones have different browsers, but they don't have different browser engines. It's WebKit or nothing.

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Re:"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig ... by stavros on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:35AM (#48246229)

It works on my Android phone with Vivaldi, though I need to be careful because the text doesn't allow me to scroll

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