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