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CNET is reporting that Lexus has created a working Hoverboard.
The Japanese car maker released a short promotional video of what it's calling a "real, rideable hoverboard" to its YouTube channel on Tuesday, ever so briefly showing off the prototype to the world.
The clip begins with several seconds of a skateboarder riding along who then stops and slowly walks over to a Lexus-branded hoverboard that would make Marty McFly jealous. Of course, the clip ends right as the rider's about to step onto the hoverboard, so we don't actually see the craft in action, but it's a promising first step from an unexpected source.
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We'll learn more about the company's plans for the prototype on October 21, the day Marty McFly, Jennifer Parker and Doc Brown went back to the future in the second installment of the film. Maybe Lexus will have some drone dog-walkers to show off as well.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @07:01PM
Of course is there code to render that video, but you don't need Javascript in a web page to show a video. Even when Flash was the primary way of embedding video in a web site, you didn't technically need Javascript to do it. I know that there is a need to work around browser bugs and find the methods available to show video, so Javascript is useful, but the Javascript that is used doesn't participate in rendering the video at all. In the end its primary job is to create a VIDEO element and let the browser do the rest. Would you be shocked to know that the video file which plays on that web page is only about twice as big as the Javascript code dedicated to making the browser play it? That's almost a megabyte of minified Javascript doing the job of a simple VIDEO element.
I don't want to go into a discussion about the declarative nature of web pages, because I think you missed the point. Even if a web page uses Javascript to "improve the client experience", web authors shouldn't think of it as a program. It is first and foremost an interactive page, not a program user interface. There are web sites which are the latter, but a page that shows you a video isn't a program.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday June 26 2015, @07:12PM
I agree with you : )
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