What is the point of doing that instead of using SVG?
It's a hack. Therefore it has been posted on "Hacker News". I come to "Hacker News" because I like seeing cool hacks once and a while. Don't you?
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I like this, it's neat art. However I must agree that I'm unmoved, I invite anyone who thinks this is particularly clever to visit www.pouet.net for a bit of re-calibration. It's all relative.
looked at pouet.net. Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing?
Took me about five seconds to read the first post. It's a site for the demo scene.
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To say nothing of the fact that, because you can embed images in CSS, this sort of thing is only interesting at all if you actually look at the CSS source. It's kind of like someone making scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. Sure, it's challenging, but why should anybody care?
I agree the novelty has worn off, but for someone who's trying it out and has done it for the first time - it's a pretty cool hack. Remember your first novelty hack?
I don't want to discourage people from playing around with CSS, or even from trying to make scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. It's good for people to challenge themselves in all kinds of creative ways. But this is supposed to be Hacker News. Making icons in CSS hasn't been newsworthy in a very long time, and I think it's lamentable that something like this is at the top of the home page while vastly more interesting things (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224972) languish in obscurity.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this, it's neat art. However I must agree that I'm unmoved, I invite anyone who thinks this is particularly clever to visit www.pouet.net for a bit of re-calibration. It's all relative.
looked at pouet.net. Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing?
Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint.
It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg in 177 kilobytes.
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#55I haven't seen so much nay-saying on HN in a while. It's like because there's an artistic element this or it's pure-web tech the appreciation of a cool hack and interesting exploration of a technology is completely gone. This is a classic example of a "hack", pushing CSS slightly beyond what it was intended for and potentially what is practical. But it's beautiful and clever, and if you truly can't appreciate it, tha…
It's been done before (and posted here)
http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/
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#56I haven't seen so much nay-saying on HN in a while. It's like because there's an artistic element this or it's pure-web tech the appreciation of a cool hack and interesting exploration of a technology is completely gone. This is a classic example of a "hack", pushing CSS slightly beyond what it was intended for and potentially what is practical. But it's beautiful and clever, and if you truly can't appreciate it, tha…
It's been done before (and posted here) http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Edit: Changed link
MalwareBytes doesn't like your link.
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It's been done before (and posted here) http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Edit: Changed link
MalwareBytes doesn't like your link.
Odd, no problem for me.
There's a lot of ads on the page , so maybe that's why.
Here's another one
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#58And still less verbose than SVG.
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#59For those who don't understand. Each image is not in fact an image, it's css styles applied to a single html element. Very impressive.
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#60I haven't seen so much nay-saying on HN in a while. It's like because there's an artistic element this or it's pure-web tech the appreciation of a cool hack and interesting exploration of a technology is completely gone. This is a classic example of a "hack", pushing CSS slightly beyond what it was intended for and potentially what is practical. But it's beautiful and clever, and if you truly can't appreciate it, tha…
It's been done before (and posted here) http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Edit: Changed link
Sure, look up "single div" on codepen and you'll find tons (http://codepen.io/search?q=%22single+div%22&limit=all&order=...). I don't think this website claims any new technique, It just shows off a collection of things made using it...