PDpdevr·Dec 24, 2021
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In CSS Zen Garden: A demonstration of what can be achieved through CSS-based designmezzoblue
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesYou're right that size ≠ complexity. However there's a vast difference between a web page with some fancy CSS and some JavaScript demo scene project.
You can have a very fancy looking page with a few KB of CSS that will render just fine on even low end modern devices. You'd have to go back almost a decade to find devices that would struggle on such non-demoscene-yet-fancy CSS.
Layout engines in browsers are pretty efficient and a fancy looking page without a bunch of JavaScript churning in the background fucking with the DOM or making a bunch of requests is not that demanding.
The CSS Zen Garden [0] did some fancy ass layouts with CSS 2 and launched in 2003 running on browsers and computers far shittier than today's low end phones and PCs. With CSS3's advancements like transforms, transparencies, and animations there's a lot of effects th
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at can be done entirely in CSS that those old designs needed images to do.
[0] https://github.com/mezzoblue/csszengarden.com