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I am unmoved by the many "... in pure CSS" posts, but I guess they are the equivalent of "HTTP server in x86 assembly" for CSS designers.

• paddyoloughlin 12y ago
  More like "386 emulator in javascript", methinks.
• kylnew 12y ago
  no kidding. The practicality of this is just non-existent. So you can do many shapes in CSS box-shadow, oh joy. Show me one instance where this is actually applicable and more semantically appropriate than embedding an SVG and I'll shut up for life.
  • lisper 12y ago
    To say nothing of the fact that, because you can embed images in CSS, this sort of thing is only interesting at all if you actually look at the CSS source. It's kind of like someone making scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. Sure, it's challenging, but why should anybody care?
    • Mandatum 12y ago
      I agree the novelty has worn off, but for someone who's trying it out and has done it for the first time - it's a pretty cool hack. Remember your first novelty hack?
      • lisper 12y ago
        I don't want to discourage people from playing around with CSS, or even from trying to make scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. It's good for people to challenge themselves in all kinds of creative ways. But this is supposed to be Hacker News. Making icons in CSS hasn't been newsworthy in a very long time, and I think it's lamentable that something like this is at the top of the home page while vastly more interesting things (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224972) languish in obscurity.
        • britknight 12y ago
          I don't want to discourage people from playing around with snarky comments, or even from trying to make people feel bad with their hands tied behind their backs. It's good for people to challenge themselves in all kinds of creative ways. But this is supposed to be Hacker News. Making hypocritical comments hasn't been newsworthy in a very long time, and I think it's laudable that something like this is at the bottom of the comments page while vastly nicer things (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229841) revel in the limelight.
          • lisper 12y ago
            OK, OK, point taken. I would have gone back and deleted my comments but it was too late.
        • talmand 12y ago
          It might be hard to realize that not everyone who visits the site has been around as long as the site has existed. There's nothing wrong for old content to be revisited; either for new eyes or refresher for old. Plus, I guess I'm sorry the masses don't find some articles as fascinating as you?
          • lisper 12y ago
            OK, OK, point taken. I would have gone back and deleted my comments but it was too late.
  • ivanca 12y ago
    Just because I like to shut people for life: Advertisement and decoration, you don't need an HTML element with title "pen for background decoration" where you want people to focus in your product. The other one is separation of concerns, many times the programmer and the designer work together, but is sometimes unhealthy to give the designer access to the templates (or php, whatever), is way less dangerous to give him access only to CSS, so using stuff like this helps in such case.
• errantspark 12y ago
  I like this, it's neat art. However I must agree that I'm unmoved, I invite anyone who thinks this is particularly clever to visit www.pouet.net for a bit of re-calibration. It's all relative.
  • ben336 12y ago
    looked at pouet.net. Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing?
    • fail2ban 12y ago
      Took me about five seconds to read the first post. It's a site for the demo scene.
    • errantspark 12y ago
      Ok fair point I shouldn't have been so glib as puet is pretty horrible from a web design standpoint. It's a website for the demoscene, where people do stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg in 177 kilobytes.
      • tacotime 12y ago
        Thanks for following up. I had assumed you were talking about some aspect of the site's design so I just looked through the html for a couple minutes before giving up. And now I'm too busy being impressed to feel like a dumbass
      • comrh 12y ago
        They do that complete render in 177kb...? I remember crack intros but that's insane. Is this in C?
        • illicium 12y ago
          C++, maybe a little assembly, and lots of shader code.
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• tripzilch 12y ago
  I do think that these are particularly well done, though. It's very crafty, creative and the pictures look nice.