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But highly impractical and far beyond what CSS should be used for.
Obviously... That's why it was done For fun and to see whether it could be done
Without a doubt the most impressive thing I've seen with CSS. This immediately brought "A Single Div"[0] to mind, which stood as the coolest CSS demo I'd seen for... 11 years! This one takes the cake. I'll be pouring over it. Thanks! [0]: https://a.singlediv.com/
https://lynnandtonic.com/work/
Also love seeing Phoenix devs mentioned!
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I personally prefer if only to stop other developers to not try doing content .
The term for such "other developers" is "hobbyists". There are other terms but I won't list them here.
I've found less ambiguity to be a better thing than not, where possible. Self-closing a tag that can't contain anything is one such example of removing ambiguity for "hobbyists".
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I personally prefer if only to stop other developers to not try doing content .
There are other tags you can omit the closing tag but yet the opening tag shouldn’t be self-closed. one two I think even the final closing ol can be omitted as there are rules to auto close elements when encountering tags that don’t make sense in context.
Ambiguity can be a dangerous thing, and not closing HTML tags can be a cause of that in my experience.
Without a doubt the most impressive thing I've seen with CSS. This immediately brought "A Single Div"[0] to mind, which stood as the coolest CSS demo I'd seen for... 11 years! This one takes the cake. I'll be pouring over it. Thanks! [0]: https://a.singlediv.com/
poring over it or pouring your attention :)
Another hug of death. The website says "It must be upgraded via the Firebase console before it can begin serving traffic again." Wayback machine for when it used to work: https://web.archive.org/web/20250317122419/https://benjamina...
Even the least offenders, GitHub Pages, broke links before [0].
[0]: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/new-github-pa...
This is fiendishly clever, and really quite elegant. I made some of my own notes on how this works here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/css-minecraft/
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Obviously... That's why it was done For fun and to see whether it could be done
My point is that there will be too many who will look at this and start using CSS in ways it is not intended. Even today, far too many people attempt to use CSS for things best left for SVG.
(I just googled that phrase - the site is CSS Zen Garden. It’s impressive Google found it because that was a bad search.)
Some people did create monstrosities, others learned the limits of CSS and used that knowledge to advance CSS. So my point is that I believe in the ability of people to advance through discovering all the things they shouldn’t do.