Comment by simonw
9 months ago
This is fiendishly clever, and really quite elegant.
I made some of my own notes on how this works here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/css-minecraft/
9 months ago
This is fiendishly clever, and really quite elegant.
I made some of my own notes on how this works here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/css-minecraft/
This is how CSS CAPTCHAs are made (for Tor websites), and sign up / login modals, and many other stuff.
good write up, thanks. talk about a combinatorial explosion!
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But highly impractical and far beyond what CSS should be used for.
Obviously...
That's why it was done
For fun and to see whether it could be done
My point is that there will be too many who will look at this and start using CSS in ways it is not intended. Even today, far too many people attempt to use CSS for things best left for SVG.
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If you really wanna get your blood boiling how about some Doom with HTML checkboxes - https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes