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by blowski 3568 days ago
Of course, kudos to the developers who are able to do this. It must be a lot of hard work, and there's no way I could do it.

But for me personally, creating something like this, with no constraints on performance, filesize, compatibility, etc, is no more amazing than building a massive website (like say bbc.co.uk) that renders perfectly, almost instantly, across many different devices.

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Imagine a quadrant chart that plots the superlatives of web solutions. The bbc sites resides in a different quadrant than these Css emphasized solutions...
Yeah, I understand that. These are like short but beautiful poems, where the BBC website is like the Britannica Encyclopaedia.

But if there's someone who works on bbc.co.uk reading this, I salute you for the amazing work you do, because you often don't get enough credit.

fun fact - on many machines (including mobile) CSS only solutions will be a lot more performant than a JS solution.

It's just down to how CSS and JS work.

Not always, but it's mostly true.