[akanet]

I think this article is a fantastic example of how you can blend prose with working interactive examples. The examples make you really trance out watching dungeons being carved out of nothing.

I think an often-discounted aspect of JavaScript's appeal is its ability to breathe life into a bunch of fascinating but otherwise dry concepts. Another terrific example is this page by the prolific Mike Bostock: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

[munificent]

I agree totally. I love the ability to write blog posts with interactive animated content. We take for granted that the web platform can do all this, but it's rare to find content that takes advantage of it. Mike Bostock and Amit Patel's sites are notable counter-examples.

I'd like to do more posts like this, but I can see why they aren't common. This one took me forever to finish. Easily eight times as much effort as a regular text + code samples blog post.

I think I'd get faster as I did more in this style, but it's really hard to for me to stay energized on a single concept long enough to finish posts like this.