Well, that's it, the future of coding is CSS: https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-lace/

Confirmed — this definitely looks like the work of a programmer.

Advertized as only working on chrome. I guess it is difficult enough to make it works for one browser.

Wake me when they make something that only works in Firefox. 😉

Well, you are (jokefully ;-)) focussing on the less interesting part of the story: portability issue, while the hacker attitude of using pure CSS as a tool to create "artistic" stuff it wasn't meant to. It is this kind of "outsider" work that make me enjoy a lot programming, it shows that you can do anything.

It's just less impressive if I load their page and it renders incorrectly in every browser except the one that most abuses the standards process. There's nothing they're doing in that piece that couldn't be done in a cross browser way. (NB: they could have generated the image pixel by pixel using square divs and manually set colours. Not saying they should, just saying they aren't being forced to support Chrome only.) When I'm making similar CSS craziness (which I do from time to time), I check my work in 3 browsers as I go. There's no extra cost. I'm being appropriately respectful of my audience. And I'm fighting the Chrome monoculture. This is the hacker attitude.

I agree that standards support and fighting monopoly are important, and deserve effort from a "hacker" point of view. And this work would have been perfect if it follows standards. But, I really enjoy this hacking attitude where one try to understand technology by ripping it appart and use it to do anything you want for your own pleasure. And without anything/anyone tell you what is the best way to do it or teach you.

That's why I like these (which do work in all browsers): https://a.singlediv.com

Thanks for the link! 🙂