A while back a hackernews dude posted a rendering of the Mona Lisa in pure CSS. I thought it was cool until I realized that if you scale your divs down to 1x1 pixels, you can literally create anything you want with CSS, perfect to the pixel. At that point the novelty wore off. Yeah, if your image is based upon flat surfaces and minimal design, you can probably make a CSS version of it with a smaller file size than a png, but it's certainly going to take you a lot longer, and considering all the people with older browsers wont even be able to see it (they'll be looking at a nightmare of jagged corners and missing drop shadows), is it even worth the milliseconds you're going to save by shaving off a few kilobytes?
I think "____________ in pure CSS" posts should be banned from hackernews as uninteresting novelty.
I think "____________ in pure CSS" posts should be banned from hackernews as uninteresting novelty.