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designdetector.com — "I've created a picture of a house using nothing more than stylesheets and borders. Absolutely no images." This has to be seen to be believed.

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  • deuce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The guy that put this together has done lots of other amazing things with CSS, including:

    http://www.designdetector.com/demos/css-house-2.html - a second CSS house
    and
    http://www.designdetector.com/tips/keyboard.php - a CSS keyboard.

    Check them out!
  • theone3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What an incredible waste of time. Dugg simply out of pity.
  • infermon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool it's like a Geek version of kidpix.
  • aaronlidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0impressive
  • Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg for the time it must've taken to put that thing together.
  • Jackolicious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0This is lame. Waste of time.
  • donte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty cool even if not remotely practical, but at least it's not another freak'n "how to make a CSS column layout" article.
  • aonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0its pretty old
  • csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Whyyyyyyyyy?
  • chachi_arcola, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0goony goo hoo
  • Ballwalker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0this is SO old.

    but neat none-the-less.
  • dgrinb01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it would have been faster to write a program that converts from regular html into css
  • thomasjay6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK it may be old, but how can anyone say it's lame? Is it just that all the comments have to be negative on digg?
  • dkarlson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool use of CSS. I hope whoever did this used a script to generate some of the div/class definitions and div tags...
  • philarcand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very nice!
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, it is kinda lame. Especially seeing as now we have Canvas (thanks WebCore team), and SVG available on most up-to-date browsers (IE7 excluded).

    It's a hack, but it's not particularly interesting, and for the amount of code that is generated... It reminds me of those PHP script kids who would use the PHPGD extension to read in an image and re-encode it for output as a TABLE (read, murder-death-killing practically any broswer on sight).
  • kingofthegreens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its cool but it seem's like wayyyy to much work just for a house. If you could build something into photoshop to automatically convert layouts to something like this, you may have something...until then...peace bitches!
  • Kostik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0There are people they really have nothing to do... waste of time
  • JoeMittler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dam thats nice!
  • lordelric, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"OK it may be old, but how can anyone say it's lame? Is it just that all the comments have to be negative on digg"

    No this is lame, and I am not being negativve. It's like we are back to coloring houses in the third grade. At least he stayed within the lines.
  • bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome
  • icexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2to the people who say it lame and a waste of time. you need to put it in context. this was initially made years ago when few people knew anything about CSS. it was an extreme demonstration of the power of CSS, intended to get people interested enough to find out more.
  • dwemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This would have been a great story back in 2003 when the house was made.
  • frontpage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0extremely badass
  • jwade1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While it is clearly a waste of time, it is still better than playing WoW

    digg
  • thatkidrich44, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Seriously... Why??? Get a girlfriend dude..though I think this will not help that process.
  • xboxing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can only think of the things I could possibly accomplish if I had that much time...that house wouldn't be one of them.
  • Johnny1337h4x0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not one to talk about waste of time, but come on, there is no way this was fun doing.
  • jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is really old.
  • cuppyCake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'Seriously... Why??? Get a girlfriend dude..though I think this will not help that process.'

    Can't you come up with a better insult than that? What is this, sixth grade?
  • jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Come back when you can do a velvet Elvis.

    http://celestial-reasoning.blogspot.com/






  • dwight0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0try and print it and see what happens
  • kenplaysviola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone give this man a cookie! NOW!
  • diggm0nkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0lame++

    no more css stories
  • jadedknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Shows the power of css.
  • pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0whats next a car? a little stick figure man? I understand a lot of web 2.0 is going simple but designing on the skill level of a child is going a bit far. no digg
  • MiamiGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I give the guy props for taking so much time to make that, but still, we are in 2006, that is not impressive anymore. Now if he did a picture of mona lisa in CSS, then I'd digg this.
  • senfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, that's awesome! Good job!
  • johnnybluejeans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe he should have used images instead. The HTML file is like 700K. Lame.
  • NeverEnoughTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing wrong with CSS-related stories IMHO, but as some other commenters have said, this is really old.

    Suggestion on CSS links - let's try to get links to some truly new and unique applications of CSS, rather than yet another tutorial link. If you need to learn how to use CSS, search digg for the old stories or check out the design category.
  • shafiq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what is css?
  • solidcube, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is me yawning.
  • bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0what a waste of time!

    now excuse me while i make comments on Digg posts.
  • thexder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Perhaps there will be a resurgence of ANSI/ASCII art in CSS now.
  • adamdeacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's so cool! Someone's got far too much time on their hands
  • hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quite badass.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It stands for Content Scrambling System. It what the generous movie studios put on their DVD's to protect us from accidentally copying their content without paying them for each and every copy that is to be played in our private homes.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-scrambling_system"
    -1, Inaccurate. (in this context anywho).

    CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. It's a description language for transforming DOM Objects. Google "Cascading Style Sheets" for more information.
  • Veretax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0heh but could CSS be the replacement for ASCII art? Thats the real question if you ask me.
  • veracon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Not news. Reported.
  • Digger123, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1who is css?
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