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agazso
A working demo would be useful to see how to use this after all.
rauljara
There is a demo. There are a number of controls on the top right, and one is labeled "Demos", though there is only one demo at the moment, and it doesn't seem complete. I suspect this is still very much a work in progress. I seriously doubt the author intended for it to be shown.
warmfuzzykitten
It doesn't seem to do anything.
benatkin
My experience exactly. I tried writing my own script and it didn't work, and then I loaded the demo script and it didn't work. I think a screencast would be nice even if it never gets broken again.
iambot
wow that looks brilliant (from what I can see), do you think its at all useful to people that actually know javascript? or is it more of a tool for those that dont/are learning?
evangineer
From the github page, the intention is that it's an introductory educational programming tool, that provides a concrete visual syntax that's easier for kids to get to grips with than the usual textual one.
windsurfer
It looks really useful as an add-on to a level editor for a game. Custom scripts that designers can create!
nprincigalli
Might want to check MIT's OpenBlocks ( http://education.mit.edu/openblocks ), which is related to Scratch (listed as inspiration by Waterbear) and includes code from StarLogo (slcodeblocks) (also listed as inspiration) and is being refactored "to make the code more amenable to inclusion to other projects". One of the recent uses of OpenBlocks was Google's AppInventor.

Kudos to the Waterbear author! Loved to see it done with JS, HTML5 and CSS3. One less thing in my list of "things that I want to see in the world but may have to build it myself". Watching the repo already! :)

Klonoar
Ah, neat, Scratch in the browser.

About time. ;)

I'm very drunk and will edit this later. Props!

ericz
Try adding

     -webkit-user-select: none;
     -khtml-user-select: none;
     -moz-user-select: none;
     -o-user-select: none;
     user-select: none;
So text in the blocks can't be selected
nicetryguy
Does not work on android chrome. Can't even scroll
snorkel
Cool editor UI works in FF 4 but Run does nothing, not even for the demo script.
rman666
Can't get it to run. I'm in Chrome. Trying FF now.
nitrogen
Obligatory link to my own visual programming language targeting home/building automation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p36xoBZVQ8c&feature=playe... (blog post: http://nitrogen.posterous.com/kinect-home-automation-goes-ht...).

P.S. Running the included Waterbear demo script seems to do nothing on Firefox 4 and Chrome 12 on Linux.