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.
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.)
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.
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.
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 . . .
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.
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!
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)
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How very 1998 of you... No upvote.
And I would love to see a comparable CSS attempt. Meaning I've no desire to try.
i just like typing the word "strict". is that wrong?
upvote for the music
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/anime_character.html
let's do war tomorrow.
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.)
*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*
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.
*leeweek is a Web 2.0 paladin, and thus hates HTML tables with a fiery passion
Besides, this is about drawing the picture using HTML. Last time I checked, HTML included tables, but not stylesheets . . .
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.
Find something totally impractical to do with it.
Make a vid.
Add techno.
This is interesting?
Talk about weird. Maybe we caught an irritated self-linking professional blogger.. (man the siftquisition)
time to do some work with the puter....the money kind!