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I don't understand the benefit of using separate windows for this type of media. Wouldn't layered DOM elements be easier and less annoying? Do the windows add to the wow factor somehow?

A similar Google-made product: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Yeah, it's a bit silly as I seem to remember it was already doable in old IE before they locked down how you could access parent/child windows and it never failed to annoy.

If anyone can remember the sites that used to have a pop 'remote control' window for video.

I'm also sure my old work used it for wizards.

Clearly Google's single usability expert was too busy to be involved in this project.

I wondered the same. The only conclusion I could come to is that they want to showcase this feature.

Based on the other comments on this one, the general consensus agrees that this is a bad idea though.

It doesn't work so well in a tiling WM: http://i.imgur.com/PXVzO.png.

I got to the final cube and then I cheated (searched for the phrase), read several links and went to that-website but it just redirects me back to thegooglepuzzle.com, anybody else confirms this behavior? I think they disabled the game somehow...

The final puzzle is broken if you block third-party cookies. Weak.

On ubuntu linux running chrome 11.0, I get the following message at the splash screen:

"We're sorry, but the Google Puzzle was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind. As a result, it may not work properly in your current browser"

Blimey they're not wrong when they say it'll open some pop-up windows. By the 13th window and no sign that it was going to show me anything I decided I didn't need to carry on playing ...

First puzzle seems broken for me in Chrome for Mac 13.0.782.220.

http://mytechknowledge.com/google/the-google-puzzle-full-ans...

Chrome (15.0.874.15-dev) completely crashes when I overlay the shape over the Rubix cube on the (presumably last?) puzzle.

For me it just closed all but the original window and it says "This is the final hint". Not sure what I'm supposed to do now.

Stuck at 4th puzzle! Please give me a hint. It is so frustrating..

Resize the window to 5 cols and 5 rows?

Read what it says once you make the letters 5x5

I really wish I owned a rubik's cube right now.

can anybody explain what this is, since it looks like they only support 1 (ONE) browser?

i m stuck at 5th puzzle ..WTF

Look at the calendar name and events for hints. You need to figure out whose calendar it is.

remember the symbol? You have to drag it. really stupid.

Read the question. ;)

email address was pretty funny

"Can be viewed only with the Chrome browser".

Are we back to the "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" days? Does the functionality really need Chrome?

Not viewable on iPad !

I don't know about other desktop browsers, but there would be no way to run this on an iPad for very simple reasons, you can't resize iPad browser windows, and have multiple on screen at once.

I'm reading that it works under Chrome, IE9+, FF5+ on windows and Chrome, FF5+, Safari5+ on mac.

It uses lots of popup windows, so that's why it isn't iPad compatible.

Sorry, it's not compatible with me either, since I hate popup windows so much I force them to open in tabs.

"We're sorry, but The Google Puzzle was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind. As a result, it MAY not work in your current browser."

And below that:

"-> Enter Anyway"

... which is not clickable in Opera, however.

Or Firefox (old version, though).

I just completed it using Firefox 6 on Windows. So it definitely works, and I find it a bit tiresome the way they keep pushing Chrome on me when they're supposed to be supporting open standards...

Will they continue to only support open standards? n.b. Dart.

yes.

http://infrequently.org/2011/09/google-the-future-of-javascr...

The question was mainly rhetorical because Google's work on Dart has not been done in the open.

nor as eich's work on javascript, until it was released.

That shows the direction Google is taking

Something awesome about getting that message on Android.

Doesn't work on a Chromebook, where everything is always fullscreen.

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