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The Simpsons in CSS

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Re: The Simpsons in CSS

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post #6

CSS art always reminds me to the acid tests, back in the old days. We come from far! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2

Those tests were definitely fun, and gave me lots of "my browser is better than yours" bragging rights. I'm surprised that it's the year 2020 and Firefox still doesn't score 100% in the Acid3 test.

Shit, Firefox Developer 74.0b8 is even failing Acid2 for me

Re: The Simpsons in CSS

#13
post #10

I was wondering why I suddenly had an influx of Twitter followers this morning... Thanks to whoever shared this.

Nicely done. I was following the link to "How I did it" and noticed that I got SSL cert errors for the site:

https://www.chrispattle.com/blog/simpsons-in-css/

You're using the cert for octopushr.app... Unfortunately port 80 is also closed, so even the most recent wayback machine wasn't working. Here's a link from 2016 which goes into your methods, which honestly, are a bit on the sparse side (it doesn't detract at all from what you've done):

https://web.archive.org/web/20160111044359/https://www.chris...

Re: The Simpsons in CSS

#15
SVG would be a better fit. Hand written SVG is underrated. But maybe it would not be difficult enough to make them in SVG. Whenever you feel the CSS get a bit hacky, like backgrounds with round shapes, it can usually be solved in a few lines of SVG. SVG also has classes and CSS, yes you can have CSS in SVG for style reusability and abstraction. You can also create SVG on the fly using JavaScript.

Re: The Simpsons in CSS

#18
Cool pictures! Well done! That's quite a feat indeed!

Not being a fan of CSS, I think this (the CSS source code) shows fairly well why I'm not a fan of CSS.

Sure, doing things like this is not what CSS is meant for.

CSS is meant for making HTML do things it wasn't meant for.

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