great stuff!! *geek for all the HTML hehe

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

is this not animation?

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

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Very cool, and kind of scary.

There's gonna be a script for this.

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

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

How very 1998 of you... No upvote.

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.

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.

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.

Garsh, correct.

I agree, this should certainly be standards compliant.

lol @ standards compliance.

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

upvote for the music

lol great idea.

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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

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

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

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

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.)

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*

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

rotfl@deathcow

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

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!

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

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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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!

Not at all surprised that it was a Japanese person.

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

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