Comments for "Drawing With HTML" Video at VideoSift.com

By thesnipe

thesnipe (http://thesnipe.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:10:32 -0700

great stuff!! *geek for all the HTML hehe

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:10:33 -0700

Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member thesnipe)

By grspec

grspec (http://stfu.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:22:51 -0700

is this not animation?

By archchef

archchef (http://www.videosift.com/member/archchef) — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:51:12 -0700

Any one know if its online? would seem only logical to make a webpage with it

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:34:09 -0700

Very cool, and kind of scary.

By Wumpus

Wumpus (http://www.videosift.com/member/Wumpus) — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:49:06 -0700

There's gonna be a script for this.

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:30:18 -0700

grspec, no, it's a time-lapse "animation" of screen caps taken while he worked on this for, I'd guess, about eight hours.

By arnor

arnor (http://twisted.videosift.com) — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:55:18 -0700

Meh... Table-based design, not standards-compliant CSS-based.

How very 1998 of you... No upvote.

By Sylvester_Ink

Sylvester_Ink (http://www.videosift.com/member/Sylvester_Ink) — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:58:32 -0700

Yeah, I know what you mean arnor. But CSS would make it a little too easy, don't you think? Tables look properly hard and complicated, and that's the entire point.

By broseth

broseth (http://www.videosift.com/member/broseth) — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:42:01 -0700

It's meant as an illustration, not a web page, arnor. No tools to validate it.

And I would love to see a comparable CSS attempt. Meaning I've no desire to try.

By garsh

garsh (http://www.videosift.com/member/garsh) — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:04:24 -0700

So basically, it's an HTML table with small (1- and 2-pixel) entries, and then he sets the background colors of cells as appropriate.

By Kevlar

Kevlar (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kevlar) — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:47:47 -0700

Garsh, correct.

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:01:40 -0700

I agree, this should certainly be standards compliant.

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:34:34 -0700

lol @ standards compliance.

i just like typing the word "strict". is that wrong?

upvote for the music

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:13:41 -0700

lol great idea.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:44:43 -0700

On the Standards Compliant thing. We've just been called "head up their ass dorks" in a Wired Blog. To the ramparts Sifters! This means war.

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/anime_character.html

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:52:01 -0700

avast! do sharpen the blades, and..no, wait, i'm tired today.
let's do war tomorrow.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:56:23 -0700

I still don't understand what PC World was talking about when they said this site played to the geek crowd.

By raven

raven (http://www.videosift.com/member/raven) — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:06:36 -0700

hmmm... this site, playing to a geek crowd? Nah.... I don't believe it

By Sylvester_Ink

Sylvester_Ink (http://www.videosift.com/member/Sylvester_Ink) — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:06:43 -0700

Wow . . . I didn't realize it would gain so much attention. And Wired too . . .

And in any case, I'd rather VS played to the geek crowd than anything else. Imagine if this site were frequented by the crowd you get at MySpace. (No offense to resident MySpacers.)

By arvana

arvana (http://arvana.videosift.com) — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:05:16 -0700

I bet if that were actually posted as a web page, it would crash three quarters of the browsers out there.

*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:50:50 -0700

arvana, that appears to be IE he is looking at it in.

By Majortomyorke

Majortomyorke (http://www.videosift.com/member/Majortomyorke) — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:13:41 -0700

CSS would have been more interesting to watch. This has to be scripted, the amount of work to hand code this would be much better spent making money or masterbating, or both if you can pull it off.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:28:23 -0700

Plasma televisions work like this, they convert the NTSC or PAL signal to HTML..

By jwray

jwray (http://jwray.videosift.com) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:22:38 -0700

I pity the fool who did this by hand. It'd take much less time to write a program to convert any bitmap to this kind of HTML.

By djsunkid

djsunkid (http://djsunkid.videosift.com) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:31:37 -0700

hahaahahha! LOL! THere's a new tagline for us- Videosift - Home of the heads up our asses dorks!

By broseth

broseth (http://www.videosift.com/member/broseth) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:48:12 -0700

Judging by the video's flow, it seems to me that this is done by hand (with lots of cut-and-paste) and not scripted.

And since there's absolutely no reason to make a drawing in this way, it's the extravagant un-necessary-ness of this act, the ridiculous amount of time spent, that in large part makes it a piece of art.

Closest CSS I remember are these:
http://www.designdetector.com/tips/3DBorderDemo2.html
http://www.designdetector.com/demos/css-house-2.html

Wow. We really are dorks.

By leeweek

leeweek (http://www.videosift.com/member/leeweek) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:32:33 -0700

OH GOD THE TABLES !!! IT BURNS!!!!!
*leeweek is a Web 2.0 paladin, and thus hates HTML tables with a fiery passion

By Sylvester_Ink

Sylvester_Ink (http://www.videosift.com/member/Sylvester_Ink) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:50:50 -0700

You know, now that I've looked into it, I think that creating the image using tables was probably the best choice to make. Using CSS would mean too much extra code, and tables are a simpler and more efficient way of simulating rectangle fills. They may not be standards-compliant, but in this case they get the job done with little fuss. Obviously CSS is more practical for web development, and this technique is unlikely to be used for any true development purposes. In short, I've decided that using tables for this was probably the best choice.

Besides, this is about drawing the picture using HTML. Last time I checked, HTML included tables, but not stylesheets . . .

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:30:15 -0700

If you are seriously complaining about standards compliance in this, no sarcasm, then you are an up your ass dork.

If, however, you read the sarcasm and report it as fact on a "respected" website then you are a talentless hack.

btw, this site is blatantly geek biased, come on, it's a popularity contest based around tedious organisation of information, and a drawing of a japanese cartoon in HTML is raised straight to the top 15. What more evidence do you need? Don't be shy about being a geek. I am off to find a video of a bikini on a pizza so i can claim my 100 votes.

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:06:03 -0700

rotfl@deathcow

By dw1117

dw1117 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dw1117) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:45:38 -0700

I would like to change my screen name to headupsidemyass please. Videosift should consider changing it's name to that as well.

By arvana

arvana (http://arvana.videosift.com) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:46:27 -0700

Haha, James Roe, you caught me! Didn't notice that he was using IE. I remember a lot of browsers choking at complex tables back when I used to design websites that way -- but then again, it could have been my HTML!

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:36:57 -0700

Find something you're good at.
Find something totally impractical to do with it.
Make a vid.
Add techno.
This is interesting?

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:51:39 -0700

LOL.. a Wired "blogger" calling out VS dorks. So, (a) he's posting a geeky video involving anime and HTML coding... (b) he had to have read the comments at VS..

Talk about weird. Maybe we caught an irritated self-linking professional blogger.. (man the siftquisition)

By aliensVSsenators

aliensVSsenators (http://www.videosift.com/member/aliensVSsenators) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:10:03 -0700

This video is awesome.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:12:51 -0700

Jeez....knew there would be a straw in the proverbial back of the humper......outta here.........!

time to do some work with the puter....the money kind!

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:53:26 -0700

Not at all surprised that it was a Japanese person.

By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:16:34 -0700

watch out! somebody could find a way of accusing you of making fun of other races. and religion too, you never know.