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8 points by Hexagon56k · 9 comments

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SushiHippie

https://dimden.dev/

Dimden shows all mouse pointers on the web page, the page in general is absolute mint.

yetihehe

I'm curious how well will it work with 5 thousand pointers...

  • Hexagon56kOP

    Would work quite well i think, at last if deployed to deno deploy

    • yetihehe

      And kill browsers...

        ws.onmessage = function(event) {
        
        Object.keys(cursors).forEach((id) => {
                if (!positions.find((pos) => pos.id === id)) {
                  document.body.removeChild(cursors[id]);
                  delete cursors[id];
                }
              });
      
      If I'm not mistaken, this has O(n^2) complexity and is executed on EACH position update. Unless it's autooptimized to not be a linear search on positions?
      • Hexagon56kOP

        It was just a quickie for fun, but maybe I should look into that

        • spdustin

          Yeah, I’d maybe make a set of just the position IDs, and do a negated .has() of that set to check if the cursor was removed.

              ws.onmessage = function(event) {
                const positionIds = new Set(positions.map(pos => pos.id));
          
                Object.keys(cursors).forEach((id) => {
                  if (!positionIds.has(id)) {
                      document.body.removeChild(cursors[id]);
                    delete cursors[id];
                  }
                });
              };
          
          Untested but that’s probably pretty close for phone typing
          • Hexagon56kOP

            Implemented and working, should probably move this whole thing outside ws.onmessage too, could be run every fifth second or so.

          • Hexagon56kOP

            Any code written on a phone is impressive ^^ Will try it out

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