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ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia (smore.com)
64 points by stevewilhelm on Nov 5, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments


Somehow, I find the MS word UI even more impressive. You can edit the page, move blocks around, and so on! Pretty well done for something that has no application at all.


Most of the heavy lifting comes with contenteditable, but it is impressive nevertheless.


Wow! I am a frequent visitor of HN and did not know such an awesome feature existed. Wonder why is it not used so often?

http://html5demos.com/contenteditable


Don't get too excited. Its cross-browser support is a mess that makes getting HTML 3.2 layers work to on IE4 and Netscape feel like a party.


It is used often. All the WYSIWYG editors out there use it.


This is actually really neat, but isn't this a pretty blatant copyright violation? Reimplementing agents in JS would be fine, but using their actual content seems to cross the legal line.


Oddly enough, I'm very compelled to believe Clippy may be a very useful on-boarding tool for new users to websites.


don't do it, man


Just until you've clicked close on him enough times... then never again... you'll miss him, you'll see.


It looks like you're writing a comment. Would you like help?


It has been discussed before on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038194


Aww, it's missing the robot I always used to use! Pretty funny though, it would be useful for a decent April Fools Day joke. Nice job.


Didn't everyone hate clippy?

Someone do a test and tell us the effect on bounce rate/time on site. For science.


Yeah, but everyone loved to hate on clippy. Results would swing the opposite way.


Incredibly coincidental that you did this. I was talking to a friend today and brought up forgotten Clippy. Glad to see it reborn and given the JS plugin treatment!


ClippyJs is pretty nice... I used it in http://uglyhack.appspot.com/boingy/ for pure nostalgia.


Prepare to see this everywhere next April Fool's day


I'd love to see this as an easter egg in Windows 8.


GestureLeft and right seem to be wrong.




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