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yeah, i expected it to be instant to be honest, given it's just markup and there's no "thinking"
It's 1.23MB of CSS & HTML - this is meant to be a stress test of the limits, lag is expected for the next several years of average-at-the-time computers!
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If I understand this timer, is it true that after ~16.5 mins, the game would stop? Are you stopping at 1000 keyframes because of a hard limit or for performance or for?
the timer stops at 999 because that's what it does in the real minesweeper, you can keep playing though!
Idle question, is CSS/HTML turing complete? If so I look forward to a Show HN of a CSS/HTML emulator of JSMESS emulating a 386 running Windows 98.
It is (and has been since the css 2.0 era) if you include user clicking mouse. There is a famous demo of rule110 in css at http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html
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It is (and has been since the css 2.0 era) if you include user clicking mouse. There is a famous demo of rule110 in css at http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html
Mouse is not necessary using CSS 3 (animations); Minesweeper[1] is enough to show Turing completeness. [1] http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/infmsw.pdf
CSS variables can't be set by animations yet without JS's CSS Houdini giving them a type - a CSS @ property is in the works to do it without JS though!
What hope does one have to implement the entire CSS spec from scratch now?
I realize this is an absurd thing to do, but it was fun and I wanted to test the limits of CSS again so I could share the results! I linked to the README since any web devs that see this will probably want to know how buuut here's a link to the game if you want to go hands on: https://propjockey.github.io/css-sweeper/#randommenu It's all open source, and I discuss some details of how to do it in that readme, but I am…
This should make white-boarding interviews a lot more fun. "Please implement Minesweeper, but only using HTML + CSS"