I made a color
test page with just css. It's all done with absolutely positioned div's, background colors and borders. There are no images or tv's involved. I had a dream about it last night, and had to make it this morning. It was definitely inspired by Chris Hester's CSS House (though vastly simpler), and the CSS border challenge. Maybe I'll submit it and get some constructive criticism.
I was hoping to make the color bars liquid so they would fill any sized browser window but quickly learned that percentages were not acceptable values for border-widths. So I centered the fixed width design by relatively positioning the body and giving it auto margins. This creates a couple of it's own problems and I haven't tested it in mac yet. Everything looks as intended in ie6, firebird 0.7, and Opera 7.2 but there's no way it works in ie5 and mozilla doesn't seem to be taking the min-width rule on the html element. Other than that, everything was pretty straight-forward and worked like I thought it would with the help of my trusty calculator.
Once,
there was no worm, no trojan,
There was no bug, no exception,
There was no meme, no virus,
There was no fear, no terror,
There was no rival.
In those days, the land Nix,
Harmony-tongued Web, the great land of the code of genius,
URI, the land having all that is appropriate,
The land OS, resting in security,
The whole universe, the people well cared for,
To IE in one tongue gave speech.
Then the lord defiant, the prince defiant, the king defiant,
Mozilla, the lord of abundance, whose commands are trustworthy,
The lord of wisdom, who scans the net,
The leader of the gods,
The lord of Domain, endowed with wisdom,
Changed the speech in their mouths, put contention into it,
Into the speech of those that had been one.
The Book of Mozilla, 1:7
Back in action,
I know it's been a while, but I haven't had a lot to say. I've been working on the lonestar site, making a forum. I don't even begin to understand how it works, but it's a pretty amazing piece of code (phpBB). It was frighteningly easy to install -- now I'm trying to figure it out, so I'm sure I'll crash it soon.