How About a Nice Game of ...
And there it is... Sargon Chess. This isn't going to just kill my productivity, it's going to kill any semblance of real life I had left.
The Internet Archive is sharing 2,600 blast-from-the-past DOS games playable in web browsers via Twitter in what is possibly an anarchist plot to strangle global productivity. This means you can tweet links to the games on archive.org, and play them within Twitter. Welcome to the future. The archive's online vault includes …
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Huh?
Do you actually "play them within Twitter" ? Whether I log in to Twitter or not, and view the tweets that way - or not - I just see the links. Clicking on them takes me to the archive.org page for the game.
Therefore, to play any of the games, you go to the archive.org page for the game, and play it there.
It's really, really nothing to do with Twitter - and it certainly isn't "since you can embed tweets in web pages" that enables you to include a couple in the article, it's because you can include links in articles, which the embedded tweet just happens to contain.
All you're doing by putting the link in a tweet, is putting a link in a tweet.
Unless I'm missing something, or something isn't working here, that's not embedding.
Yes, Twitter does in fact let websites show a full-featured iframe in the 'details' view. Basically a preview of the link – can be iframe, can be some HTML for news articles, can be an image for Hipstergram.
'Course, most native clients don't really bother supporting iframes, so this is specific to the website. (YouTube embeds do work in many apps though.)
Firefox - and yes, I have Javascript disabled. (I have it allowed by default on some sites, and on others I temporarily allow it as seems necessary/if I feel trusting enough.)
archive.org's scripts were allowed - that was enough to allow them to play on archive.org.
theregister.co.uk is allowed by default.
twitter.com and twimg.com are allowed by default.
No embedded games appeared either here or on Twitter - as I said, just links to the game's page on archive.org
However, in the interests of science, I have now allowed all scripts to run (and I've paused Ghostery's blocking, in case that was a factor)
The page took a lot longer to load than before, and no longer scrolls smoothly - and there are still no embedded games, only links to the page on archive.org
And again, looking at the tweets on Twitter itself (logged in or not) and they still only contain the link, with no embedded game.
Running through the config, I can't see anything obvious that I've set that would be blocking the games when embedded (or from being embedded).
I've now also loaded the page into Internet Explorer and Chrome - still no embedded games, only links (and nothing's disabled or blocked on those because I don't normally use them in anger, only for testing my own pages), and the same in both browsers when looking at the tweets on Twitter.
I won't bother trying NetSurf! ;)
I wondered if it might be a regional roll out as well - since Chris (Diodesign) lives in Overpuddle now. I don't know where Alexander is based, but I've a feeling here in the UK. That (if my guess is right) would rule out it being a regional thing. And if you're over there, that probably rules it out as well.
It could still be a gradual roll out, I suppose, with who it does and doesn't work for being determined by some other factor that we can't directly see.
I fucking hate Disney, but believe it or not, they even started an open source 3-D engine (Pirates of the Caribbean MMO uses it, in fact I think it was the first real open source 3-D engine). So, I'm not too sure if Disney cares if kids get hooked on their products. Sadly, Disney is smarter than Nintendo (who might prosecute your child if they make a video for free, nevermind playing the game for free!).