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Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by Scottopherson »

cup wrote: post #20
pan69 wrote: post #16

About ten years ago I made a converter application that converted a image (jpg/png/gif) to an HTML table. The result at the time was great. Unfortunately the generated HTML was quite verbose so it took a lot of bandwidth to download. I guess a similar conversion program has been used here and it seems that CSS these days can take off quite a bit of fat of that generated code. PS: Forgot to mention. The reason I wrote…

While some websites stop people from right clicking and saving (such as flickr) you can get around that by just screen printing. So why would you invest time in trying to stop one route of copying when there is a second unstoppable?

Clients.

Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by lowboy »

RKearney wrote: post #19
tlrobinson wrote: post #18

We get it, you can draw anything in "pure CSS".

Not entirely. This also requires HTML.

You know, I was going to write that it was a given since CSS is applied to a markup language so you need some sort of markup, and that you were being pedantic.

But then I thought it would be neat if someone were to make the Mona Lisa as ASCII art using only valid CSS, thus rendering a truly pure CSS version. I guess you could further argue that it isn't pure CSS because it also involves something to display the text.

Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by lowboy »

phoboslab wrote: post #14

And here I am, upvoting the thread because I thought it's a statement about how ridiculous all the 'X in pure CSS' posts have gotten, while everyone else in this thread seems to be genuinely impressed.

At least it's better than X in pure HTML5.

Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by jere »

cup wrote: post #20
pan69 wrote: post #16

About ten years ago I made a converter application that converted a image (jpg/png/gif) to an HTML table. The result at the time was great. Unfortunately the generated HTML was quite verbose so it took a lot of bandwidth to download. I guess a similar conversion program has been used here and it seems that CSS these days can take off quite a bit of fat of that generated code. PS: Forgot to mention. The reason I wrote…

While some websites stop people from right clicking and saving (such as flickr) you can get around that by just screen printing. So why would you invest time in trying to stop one route of copying when there is a second unstoppable?

>So why would you invest time in trying to stop one route of copying when there is a second unstoppable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

Good question. I'd like to know also.

On another note, let's be honest. A lot of people today don't know print screen. I'd say the majority. But 10 years ago? That image to table conversion must have been a bank vault.

Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by cup »

Scottopherson wrote: post #21
cup wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While some websites stop people from right clicking and saving (such as flickr) you can get around that by just screen printing. So why would you invest time in trying to stop one route of copying when there is a second unstoppable?

Clients.

Would it not be easier to explain to them that what they're asking for is impossible to deliver?

Re: Mona Lisa in pure CSS

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Post by xutopia »

pan69 wrote: post #16

About ten years ago I made a converter application that converted a image (jpg/png/gif) to an HTML table. The result at the time was great. Unfortunately the generated HTML was quite verbose so it took a lot of bandwidth to download. I guess a similar conversion program has been used here and it seems that CSS these days can take off quite a bit of fat of that generated code. PS: Forgot to mention. The reason I wrote…

Screenshot?
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