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Re: CSS Minecraft

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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/

have you seen this modern marvel? https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-lace/

Wow, Dark Reader absolutely mutilated her.

Re: CSS Minecraft

#53
post #29

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/

good write up, thanks. talk about a combinatorial explosion!

Re: CSS Minecraft

#59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works fine on my iPhone 14.

Similar problems on my MBP, actually – just sans crashed tab. Zooming in and scrolling around on Chrome and Safari cause the divs to rerender (repaint?) and often not all of them even do! E.g. Chrome: https://imgur.com/a/VWCAL9G Scrolling is fine in Firefox but extremely slow.

It surprisingly smooth on Firefox on my Pixel 8
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