Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!!
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Claims a working Breakout playable inside a PDF when opened in Chrome by embedding PDF JavaScript, despite Chrome implementing only a weird subset of Adobe’s API. Renders everything as form fields using a text-box rendering hack, tracks mouse position with hover-tracking via thin fields, and forces screen updates by flashing a large background text box many times per second. The game runs in Chrome with these practical hacks and visible limitations from the constrained API.
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