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Adobe being first didn't impress me much, Twitter made me curious, and I was extremely impressed by Steve Jobs, Apple, BP and Nike.
Whats the advantage of doing this versus sprite splicing
It's more just an impressive feat that pushes the boundaries of what's imaginable using CSS.
These use a lot of empty divs. It's no different in approach to the "twitter fail whale in css" experiment of last year.
I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…
I think it's naive to assume that this is not meaningful or useful.
It will certainly open creative doors in enough developers' brains to lead to innovations on other projects.
Not to mention serve as a portfolio to get the authors more business.
To me that's not useless.
I've never seen something like this in pure CSS. If anyone knows of anything this impressive, please post a link to it.
Maybe a dumb question from someone who isn't proficient with CSS -- but if you can render these as vector images, can't you autogenerate the CSS for them? And the reason I even ask is I feel like I could draw all of these logos pretty well with Illustrator, but couldn't just sit down in a text editor and make these logos with CSS.
But SVG should be a better option anyway (it doesn't work in <IE9, but on the other hand, this probably won't either).
These use a lot of empty divs. It's no different in approach to the "twitter fail whale in css" experiment of last year.
I'll be impressed when someone can build a logo out of CSS... semantically .
It's just voodoo thinking on the part of web designers that were taught about it circa 2000.
And it basically comes from the misunderstanding that the html page is the data, when it's really just a RENDERING of the data. The data is what's on the DB or storage system --and that, yes, has to be semantically stored and attributed.
The template is just a means to show them GRAPHICALLY, not semantically.
Except if our main purpose is to make screen scrapping easier.
I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…
Perhaps this is a naive question, but are there any benchmarks comparing client-side load times for actual images vs. images rendered in CSS? Server-side bandwidth savings is easier to calculate, and while I realize this kind of savings for sites like Twitter can create noticeable margins, I'm curious as to what the cost-benefit threshold is.
Matt Seeley, UI Engineer at Netflix, made a presentation in which he touches these issues. It's available here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5618867/mseeley-2011-09-27-html5devc...
I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…
>> I can hear the arguments now, "but it shows off the power of CSS!" I think it's naive to assume that this is not meaningful or useful. It will certainly open creative doors in enough developers' brains to lead to innovations on other projects. Not to mention serve as a portfolio to get the authors more business. To me that's not useless.
I think maybe, being a front-end guy, I'm a lot less impressed with it as it's part of my job to keep up on this kind of thing so I've seen it a lot already.
Now if this had been a tool that would generate CSS shapes with sliders/toggles allowing you to manipulate the shapes/logos in place, that would be cool and educational/useful.