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I just followed some of the links and came across a very interesting effect, much in line with the theme of the "broken web"... if you follow the homer simpson

by jurjenh 17y ago

I just followed some of the links and came across a very interesting effect, much in line with the theme of the "broken web"... if you follow the homer simpson link you end up on the blog of Roman Cortes, which happens to be in spanish. Chrome helpfully offers to translate the page into english for me (and does a reasonable job too), which is great, but destroys the CSS effect, and you get a somewhat different homer than everyone's used to... http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/ http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

ZeroGravitas 17y ago
It's not clear from your post if you understand this or not, but for the benefit of anyone else, the reason it breaks is (I guess) because the face is made up of many superimposed letters, colored and positioned with CSS. If you translate the page it's likely that certain letters or runs of letters will be translated to equivalent words in the other language. This is kind of interesting, but doesn't really say anything about whether the web is broken or not. The fact that it doesn't work for me in Chrome even in the original spanish might though.