A completely counterproductive design that I pray was done as an artistic endeavour and not as a genuine "design" by anyone who would wish to claim to know UX.
Probably one of the worst offenders of "all form, no function" I've seen recently.
There's no need to insult the visitors intelligence.
That said, in form it is highly accomplished. Very shiny.
As far as I'm aware no one is making great claims of this being some UX masterpiece or it's purpose of being functional and from a cursory look it seems as if the purpose was for 'neat-o' or even 'pretty' factor. Also, have you considered it's intended audience? Not everything created has it's intended audience as, well, everyone. Myself and I imagine most people on HN understand it fine and actually enjoy it being presented that way (Therefore it does have function) as opposed to the standard way we've seen it for who knows how many years.
So, your prayer looks like it was answered before you even uttered it though going by www.phurix.net . . .
But does that really count when form is the intended function, and what little practical function that exists is mealy a flimsy excuse for the form to exist...?
I'm just hoping that's what this is and that the creator wasn't seriously trying to create something that people would actually use.
curl -L -s --max-time 10 http://ip.appspot.com | egrep -o -m 1 '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}'Although you don't get the IPv6 stuff.
I think it's simple, I like the fact that it does just one thing, and I enjoyed the geekiness of the extra encodings (binary, long and hex).
Almost every other network tool website is 50% google ads, 50% reverse-dns-propagation-zone-transfer style, with the actual IP address in small or medium size text. Double click selection works well in my browser too (FF 5.0).
You have my upvote!