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IE [1] https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...
They look fairly useless in IE8 — http://i.imgur.com/IjWkRvp.png
Fantastic job on the logos! It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago?
What's wrong with SVG? Use the right tool for the job.
Don't read too far into this comment though, this was purely something fun I wanted to attempt.
Oh my God, this is amazing. I envy people like you Brian, this is insanely clever. I wish I were as masterful with CSS to even think of being able to do what you've done here. Would love to know what the process was like, did you have the shapes and positions in mind and knew what you wanted to add to what, or was it more trial and error?
Thank you for the kind words! For each one I started off pinpointing the toughest areas/curves to create, and then worked off that. There's a lot of thought behind which layers to place first so that subsequent layers can mask over spills or imperfections, but beyond that the rest is pure trail and error.
Some of the comments on here are pure trash. I wish a mod would delete them or something. Fantastic job on the logos! It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago?
Some of the comments on here are pure trash. I wish a mod would delete them or something. Fantastic job on the logos! It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago?
I think a lot of people here wish this type of post would only have made the top of the front page 10 years ago (knowing hn was starting in 07), nowadays a post about css images is a lot like a "Lets Rethink Big O". I am just saying at some point this was a big deal, but now we gotta raise our standards for being impressed.
That is pointless dismissal of someone's efforts. I personally think this is awesome. It's using css in a non-traditional way, and one that surely took a lot of thought.
How is this any different than any other technical post that have no "functional merit" (of sorts)? Remember the very popular post about programming pokemon from inside of the game? That's equally pointless as these css logos, and yet loved by all for it's clever way of using something in a non-traditional manner. What about the link to the guy talking about his foray into nes programming? Not relevant by any stretch, but it's damn interesting.
I swear it's like half of the people on hacker news don't remember how to have fun while programming. Remember doing something just for the sake of doing it? Just an "I wonder if I could.." exercise that gets out of hand?
What bugs me more than anything is this arbitrary cutoff of "worth" on hacker news. Let's check out the current front page: (another) post mortem of a failed start up, taking polls on each other salary, and another weekly article on which type of person makes the best founder (of which we'll surely see the inverse post of tomorrow (No, X is the best type of founder!)). You're right, guy who built a fun technical demo? Only impressive 10 years ago.
Fuck that guy for having the audacity to crowd the front page with his worthless tech demo.
The negativity in this thread.. it's getting to me.
What's wrong with SVG? Use the right tool for the job.