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World’s Highest Website
- smcleod 4y agoI half expected it to be https://snoopdogg.com https://snoopdogg.com
- NoGravitas 4y agoOr https://willienelson.com/ https://willienelson.com/
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoI have a site called https://www.thehighestcritic.com https://www.thehighestcritic.com that fits the bill.
- mft_ 4y agoI was thinking /r/trees was leaking…
- HidyBush 4y agoIt would be interesting if this website's height corresponded to the average daily length of a person's infinite-scrolling on their phone
- throwaway413 4y agoJust scrolled a quick ~10 miles, now to do 3 sets of 10 like-presses…
- oboes 4y agoI thought it was going to be the website whose hosting location is at the highest altitude. I wonder what that one would be now.
- bricemo 4y agoRight, I think this is world’s tallest website, not world’s highest
- sshine 4y agoI just tilted my screen. Now it's the world's widest website!
- petercooper 4y agoIf you discount random experiments hosted on someone's laptop or something, there's probably something in La Paz, Bolivia which would get us to around 4000m elevation. Chile has a data center at 5000m elevation but it's for a supercomputer. Some Googling indicates China thought they were on to something with a data centre in Lhasa at around 3600m elevation: https://www.passionateinmarketing.com/china-to-build-the-worlds-highest-altitude-data-center/ https://www.passionateinmarketing.com/china-to-build-the-wor...
- MarioMan 4y agoSurely we could do better by hosting something in orbit. I found an interesting case: the USS (Unix-Space-Server) Langley, launched in 2015: https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/uss-langley/ https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/uss-langley/
- petercooper 4y agoPerhaps an interesting way to further qualify "highest web site" might be to demand it's available directly from the broader Internet. While even a permanent TCP/IP based device in space would be pretty cool (and, I imagine, actually exists) the cost of the connection is probably onerous to make it open to public use(?) So perhaps if someone could rig up a microwave link to a solar powered Raspberry Pi Zero hanging off of a weather balloon or something.. we could have a truly publicly accessible Web server at above jet-liner height? :-D This feels like something Tom Scott might try..
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- reimertz 4y agoFirefox crashed
- Tao3300 4y agoThey do mention a Firefox issue at the bottom: > Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when trying to make the site any higher than 18.939583 kilometers, “shrinking” or “collapsing” the main container. Not necessarily related to what you're seeing.
- tgv 4y agoMine doesn't crash. It does give the wobblies another commenter mentions.
- iammjm 4y agoEach time I see something like this I think to myself that just because you can doesn't mean you should...
- bilekas 4y agodocument.body.scrollHeight + 1 .
- kbrannigan 4y agoI thought the air of the server room was infused with psychoactive smoke.
- chanandler_bong 4y agohttps://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/04/05/the-worlds-highest-data-center https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/04/05/the-... ?
- chanandler_bong 4y agoA more 'traditional' datacentre: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/china-setting-up-worlds-highest-altitude-cloud-computing-data-centre-in-tibet/articleshow/78932514.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/china-sett...
- idleproc 4y agoNot to be confused with: https://worlds-longest-website.com/ https://worlds-longest-website.com/
- dalmo3 4y agoAbout 15 times longest than the tallest one. Best five minutes I've ever spent scrolling (on mobile).
- hanniabu 4y agoI'm not sure I understand the difference between longest and highest here
- bmacho 4y agoI don't get it. When I grab the scrollbar, and move slowly, the scale moves according to it, but it writes that I moved kilometers.
- martinsebastian 4y agoauthors thank you ;-)
- zhte415 4y ago100cm * 2840em = 18.94km? I don't get this. Could someone not missing something explain? Edit, to make the question clearer: The CSS of the 'spacer' div has: Font size: 100cm; Height: 2840em; How does this result in 18.94km?
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI don't get it either. This is like one of those trick questions designed to prove that one can never actually be certain of something in CSS.
- kretaceous 4y agoI posted this on HN hoping to find an explanation. I tried all sorts of calculations, including measuring my screen size to find how many centimetres 1 pixel is but couldn't make sense of any it.
- trinovantes 4y agoHovering over the <html> tag shows the site's height is 10735200px 10735200 px / (37.8px / 1 cm) = 284000 cm Based on a 96dpi standard monitor (96px/in or 96px/2.56cm)
- roelschroeven 4y agoSmall nitpick: an inch is 2.54 cm, not 2.56 cm. That makes the html element 284035.5 cm high, which I guess is the height of that "whws" div plus the height of text and margins above and below. In any case about 28.4 m is a long way of from 18.94 km.
- trinovantes 4y agoOops you're right about that typo Although for css cm, browsers will use 37.8 px/cm instead of 96/2.54=37.7952 when making the conversion which gives the even 284000cm The only way I can think of to get 18.94 km from the browser's interpreted 2.84 km is if the website is physically projected/printed on a 14.4 dpi display like a billboard
- halotrope 4y agoThat's great. But why can't it show the current altitude while scrolling?
- oefrha 4y ago1. No idea why 100cm * 2840 is 18.94 kilometers; 2. I can increase 2840em to somewhere below 5000em no problem on both Chrome and Firefox. Beyond that Firefox hides the element and Chrome cuts off at some point. Not sure if it's dependent on vram or something? Another interesting thing is Firefox's Layout tab shows a wrong, capped height in the Box Model diagram; currently says 8947820px for me, but it even changes from time to time.
- fredley 4y ago"Although mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9MRYJz9-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9MRYJz9-4
- sodimel 4y agoThere's Borjomi's "deepest site" that shares the spirit of this site: https://thedeepestsite.com/ https://thedeepestsite.com/
- danuker 4y agoI find it nowhere near as accessible. The browser's scrollbar is disabled, for example. Ctrl+Home/End doesn't work either. It may share the idea, but not the spirit.
- sodimel 4y agoIn ~2012 (I think) it was really "fun" to watch streams of people doing a race to reach the bottom of borjomi's website :P
- jacobevelyn 4y agoOr this one: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
- KingMachiavelli 4y agoHmm, I think I've opened some log files that might be longer.
- abhayhegde 4y agoJokes on them, I have Vimium (vim plugin for browsers) and used G (Shift + g) to skip scrolling.
- lordgrenville 4y agoDitto, with Tridactyl :)
- _jstreet 4y agoOr you could use the browser/windows(?) shortcut Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End, or Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down. OR just use the 'take the elevator' link on the page itself.
- hooby 4y agoThis site is very, very old. I believe it predates Google Chrome. It's based on a rendering limitation found in Firefox back then. It never really worked in Internet Explorer - and Firefox (as well as Chrome) can render much higher websites these days.
- cellover 4y agoThis reminds me that I have a habit of recording notable altitudes in my commit messages ^_^ For instance: git show 47d8c02bdbec91f8e0ce4b4453010ea9b7b241ef commit 47d8c02bdbec91f8e0ce4b4453010ea9b7b241ef Author: txxxxxxx <txxxxxxx@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat Nov 30 17:25:32 2019 +0100 Drop name field from user table Fixes: #2102 Altitude: 2336m
- htk 4y agoFor those on mobile, here's the end of the webpage after all the scrolling: Awesome. Restart? Scroll up (we’ll wait for you), use the elevator, or press Ctrl and Pos1. For everyone else there’s some fine print. This website is a CSS experiment. Due to its experimental nature, there are some accessibility limitations. The technical and design principles of this site are simple: one HTML container; pure CSS styling; no workarounds, filters, or hacks. Known issues Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when trying to make the site any higher than 18.939583 kilometers, “shrinking” or “collapsing” the main container. Internet Explorer has problems following internal links, and it’s unclear whether the container actually is said 18.94 kilometers high (or long, or tall). If you do come up with fixes or an even higher element whose formatting is broadly supported, email info@worlds-highest-website.com. There may be a reward. WHWS is presented by web artist Jens Oliver Meiert and the secret “Flying Standardistas Club.” Design: Alessandro Lettieri. Contact: Jens Oliver Meiert (Hamburg, Germany) · info@worlds-highest-website.com · +1-754-400-0999.
- m_st 4y agoDid someone already print it to verify the claimed height?
- Retr0id 4y agoThe font rendering in Firefox on macOS (2x dpi scaling) is all "wobbly" - the glyphs are on inconsisent baselines, varying by a few pixels (but only the text at the bottom, not at the top). I suppose this is due to floating point precision/rounding errors, which is interesting to see. Also, the "elevator" back to the top only takes me about 80% of the way there, which is probably due to something similar.
- Tao3300 4y agoTrue on Android too. I was wondering if that was on purpose.
- meigwilym 4y agoSurely tallest? Or longest?
- mrb 4y agoIt took me less than 2 minutes of scrolling to reach the bottom. This implies I'm scrolling at 568 kph or 353 mph ! This seems impossible. Either this site is not really 18.94 km long, or Chrome on Android implements scrolling acceleration to such speeds which I don't believe it does.
- ChrisArchitect 4y ago(2006)
- Vaskerville 4y agoIn 2008 I made onemilescroll.com with Daniel Eatock. It was a fun project where we allowed users to post things at whatever height. It wasn't nearly as rigorous as WHW. Eventually it required updates... https://web.archive.org/web/20160303050135/http://www.onemilescroll.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160303050135/http://www.onemil...
- WaffleIronMaker 4y agoYou might also enjoy http://endless.horse/ http://endless.horse/
- LocalPCGuy 4y agoI also thought it was going to be highest hosting location, which reminded me of the StackBlitz "we're going to host your site in space" talk they gave at ngConf. Wasn't sure if it got launched or not, but does not appear to have been yet per the website. https://deployto.space/ https://deployto.space/ Manifest still shows it in queue: https://www.interorbital.com/Launch%20Manifest.php https://www.interorbital.com/Launch%20Manifest.php
- butz 4y agoThis website clearly illustrates the importance of scrollbars, why they are very useful and should not be hidden by default on desktop. Appropriate scrollbar width is important too.
- smalldick 4y agoMX Master: "Finally, a worthy opponent"
- shagie 4y agoA bit more interesting content - If the Moon were only 1 pixel - a Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.... I suggest clicking on light speed scrolling.
- Foomf 4y agoI love how the div id for the bottom is #hades
- sto_hristo 4y agoThis is something that even my Logi MX Master mouse is unable to handle.
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- kazinator 4y agoFirefox's inspector says that the repeated ruler box (the div#whws element) is 10733900 pixels tall. At 100 dpi, that's around 5 miles or 8 km.
- yellowapple 4y agoOn Firefox for Android, I was able to scroll to the bottom in about a minute, which means I'm capable of scrolling at a speed of no less than 660 miles per hour. I'm glad my years of doomscrolling practice have finally paid off.