HTML5-Gewgaws

This is a collection of gewgaws written for HTML5, generally (if not exclusively) in Javascript.

"Gewgaw" means exactly what it sounds like. But if you insist on a more specific description, think: small entertainments that are somewhere between automata, games, and art.

(A corollary of this is that if something is a proper HTML5 game or automaton or whatever, it will probably have its own repo instead of being in this one.)

If you want to see these gewgaws in action, you should head on over to the online Gallery at Cat's Eye Technologies.

Many of these gewgaws make use of the yoob.js library. Generally, the gewgaw will use the yoob.js files from the common-yoob.js-0.x directory in the root of this repo. If it needs a different version of yoob.js for some reason, it may use a local yoob subdirectory.

The contents of this repo are in the public domain; see the file UNLICENSE for more information. This includes any images found within, which I have either obtained from public domain sources, or hereby place into the public domain. This includes, too, the bits and pieces of yoob.js, which is itself in the public domain.

Consistent Gewgaw Interface

This is really just a set of notes for establishing a consistent interface for starting these gewgaws.

You can't currently, but you ought to be able to say something like this to start any of these gewgaws:

<script src="yoob/whatevs.js"></script>
<script src="any-gewgaw.js"></script>
<script>
  yoob.gewgaws["any-gewgaw.js"].launch({container: 'foo'});
</script>

...where foo is the id of a div (probably) element somewhere in the page. The launch method should create the elements needed for the gewgaw (often a canvas and a control panel div) inside the container.

There should maybe be some kind of "full window"/"fullscreen" flags in there too — "full window" would expand the container to fill the browser window, and "full screen" would probably add a full-screen-ifying button.

And yoob.js requirements...? Oh gosh, there are fancy Javascript ways for specifying those sort of things nowadays, aren't there. Oh, but they're all so heavyweight. Bah.