Draw pixel art using CSS only Bye bye images.

http://kushagragour.in/lab/picssel-art/

by chinchang • 14 years ago

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jstsch• 14 years ago

This is getting ridiculous. If you wanna draw dynamically, use canvas or use data/base64 as the image src.

richo3• 14 years ago

Are you kidding?

You realise the CSS has to be requested right? With a seperate request?

And that you could probably optimise your individual pixel rendering css to some kind of binary format?

Like PNG or JPG?

lukeholder• 14 years ago

It is crazy and i wouldn't recommend it, but it does not need to be a separate request - that is false. Also, an image WOULD be separate request.

richo3• 14 years ago

Not really. You can inline base64 encoded images. The main problem being that it's about equally as insane as drawing your images with CSS.

scott_w• 14 years ago

The separate request is not why it's a bad idea.

The reason it's a bad idea is that it needs to be re-rendered every time the user loads that page - which can become significant overhead on devices where CPU resources are constrained e.g. mobile phones.

olsn• 14 years ago

i don't think the creator intended this to be something to actually use in a productive way - i more believe that he/she wanted to do something cool with the css3 - i think it's a pretty cool idea even if there is no practical use for it

richo3• 14 years ago

I agree. I think it's awesome.

My comment was more in reaction to "bye bye images" in the submission title.

Draw pixel art using CSS only Bye bye images.

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