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Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Re: Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Post by 3princip »

>Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10KB and works without JavaScript.

It's difficult to imagine what such an experience would contain, CSS animation trickery?

I'm very pro minimal UI code, my last hobby project didn't include any framework libraries and the front-end came in at 23kb including images, CSS, HTML and JS.

But without a back-end, and without JS (no SPAs), is this just a contest to build the best looking static page?

Re: Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Post by nathancahill »

From the 5k challenge in 2000: "Indeed, the winning site offered a witty yet powerful critique of the current state of the web via a fully functional e-commerce shopping cart. In less than 5K. Bastards."

The winning site: http://web.archive.org/web/20000510060852/http://www.sylloge...

Re: Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Post by ewindisch »

3princip wrote: post #2

>Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10KB and works without JavaScript. It's difficult to imagine what such an experience would contain, CSS animation trickery? I'm very pro minimal UI code, my last hobby project didn't include any framework libraries and the front-end came in at 23kb including images, CSS, HTML and JS. But without a back-end, and without JS (no SPAs), is this just a contest to…

Reading through, it seems that JS is allowed, but the page needs to be functional without it. Ideally, the page would work with Lynx.

Re: Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Post by astazangasta »

nathancahill wrote: post #3

From the 5k challenge in 2000: "Indeed, the winning site offered a witty yet powerful critique of the current state of the web via a fully functional e-commerce shopping cart. In less than 5K. Bastards." The winning site: http://web.archive.org/web/20000510060852/http://www.sylloge...

Where "fully functional" means "just a dummy, can't actually manage payment or shipping".

Re: Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes

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Post by latch »

I know a simple blog isn't the type of site this contest has in mind, but a couple years back I tried to shrink my blog's homepage. I got some good feedback and was happy with the result. Since I go long stretches of time without doing frontend, I felt it was a worthwhile exercise.

This is what I learned from the experience: http://openmymind.net/Minimalist-Markup/

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