I can tell you why I am not WOWed by it.. It is not clean, and tight, and
that is what pleases my eye. For me, it looks very amateur. However, any
person that takes a chance and dives in doing css gets kudos from me, but
not all online artistry even done in css is something that commends those
Your home page is very attractive.
A bit of humble pie - I validated your home page using your referral button 'xhtml' and got 15 errors.
Your CSS shows one related error:
Please, validate your XML document first!
Line 164
Column 25
The element type img must be terminated by the matching end-tag
A recent survey in my imagination revealed that:
99% of people don't go wow because, not having the experience of
attempting to build anything remotely like it, they don't see how clever it is.
Half the rest go wow because, having experience, they see it is clever,
but don't quite understand
Well put. For the record, my I'm not worthy comment was merely my
manner of speech and should not, of course, be taken literally.
Everybody was wowing -- I chose to say something different.
Yes, I was (and am) very impressed.
~john
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From: Andrew Krespanis
I know I'm way out on a limb with this one, but the ocean thing really
doesn't do anything for me... The diver/flashlight effect is cool
(even though it looks a bit nasty as it goes over the gradient) and
the rendered ocean floor has really
OT: Does anyone else think the Garden needs some sort of rating system
or better categorisation? When there was only ~30 it was fine. But now
there's ~520. A lot will never get seen, and that probably includes some
really good examples that should be.
[also OT]
What the garden really needs
OMG...I'm not worthy.
~john
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on 12/17/2004 5:44 AM Leslie Riggs said the following:
Now THIS is what makes designing with CSS fun!! I just love this.
Leslie Riggs
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:36:18 +1100, russ - maxdesign
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http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
Russ
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:27:16 -0600, Christie Mason
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In my Firefox .9.3, both sites only show text and some colored backgrounds.
I had to view them in IE to see the wow factors.
Christie Mason
I am absoultely sure you did not see real wow factors with IE - for
the
The diver doesn't show up in my version of IE6. I'm thinking that's by
design.
Rimantas Liubertas has created a disturbance in the Force.
I felt its presence on 12/17/2004 8:44 AM.
Its substance was as follows:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:27:16 -0600, Christie Mason
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In my
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:27:16 -0600, Christie Mason
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In my Firefox .9.3, both sites
I'm getting weird things in Safari 1.2.3 OS X.3.5. Safari either shows
no flashlight turning on *or* the bg to the diver is a tall column,
almost the reverse of the ocean gradient, and the flashlight works. FF
1.0 Mac works great.
Anyone else??
Tom Livingston
Senior Multimedia Artist
mlinc.com
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:41:12 -0600, Christie Mason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Yes, I did use the correct URL, you may want to use something like Tiny
URL for future links.
URL123 (http://url123.com) is really handy for posting long URLs in
email. It even allows you to save links you've shared,
It's not beautiful if you zoom your text.
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry
It's not beautiful if you zoom your text
Todd Baker wrote:
hang on a sec.. Ill just pick my jaw up of the ground
Thats amazing.
those bubbles own :)
seriously, awesome job.
But, its not balanced at all. Until i got to the bottom i was like ok,
what's the big deal?. Perhaps thats a feat in and of itself...
That so rocks. Too bad it won't get listed on there, because it causes
IE problems.
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:01:30 -0500, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Todd Baker wrote:
hang on a sec.. Ill just pick my jaw up of the ground
Thats amazing.
those bubbles own :)
I know I'm way out on a limb with this one, but the ocean thing really
doesn't do anything for me... The diver/flashlight effect is cool
(even though it looks a bit nasty as it goes over the gradient) and
the rendered ocean floor has really nice lighting, but besides that...
Comments like I'm not
I know I'm way out on a limb with this one, but the ocean thing really
doesn't do anything for me... The diver/flashlight effect is cool
(even though it looks a bit nasty as it goes over the gradient) and
the rendered ocean floor has really nice lighting, but besides that...
I have to agree with
Some of us are pretty impressed and even mystified at the guy's technical
creativity at utilising standards-based techniques to achieve the effects
of the diver and the light and the bubbles and the crab.
It is that sense of seeing art at the cutting-edge of science that makes us
go wow.
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:58:11 +1100, J4Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
When I first saw it, I thought ooh this is a nice color scheme and use
of animated gifs and that was about it. It is quite creative.
Francesco Sanfilippo, Developer / Designer
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It is that sense of seeing art at the cutting-edge of science that makes us
go wow.
Good point John, I can't argue with that :) The backgrounds are great,
the css is cutting edge. That doesn't make it a great design though.
Could the people who think it is so non-wow, please explain to us in
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
Russ
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Hi all
Remember to put the ean.css on the end! I was marvelling at a
fantastic page of unstyled content (which shows how table free code is
useful when styles are turned off!) then saw the URL was incomplete...
Cheers
James
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:36:18 +1100, russ - maxdesign
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hang on a sec.. Ill just pick my jaw up of the ground
Thats amazing.
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:36:18 +1100, russ - maxdesign
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
Russ,
I see it beautifully in Safari, but in Firefox only a blue background
and tiny Times Roman text. What the...?
-Hugh Todd
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/
cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
Worked a treat in Friefox Win. Really lovely.
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:28:30 +1100, Hugh Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russ,
I see it beautifully in Safari, but in Firefox only a blue background
and tiny Times Roman text. What the...?
-Hugh Todd
Works fine in my copy of Firefox.
Very nice crab.
Gary
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:28:30 +1100, Hugh Todd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I I see it beautifully in Safari, but in
Firefox only a blue background
and tiny Times Roman text. What the...?
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Now THIS is what makes designing with CSS fun!! I just love this.
Leslie Riggs
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
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OK,
Maybe I shouldn't have installed the final version of Firefox without
deleting earlier versions and/or support files. You've prompted me to
delete Firefox's Application Support. Revisiting the site... I see the
crab! I see it all! And the blue background is more seamless than in
the
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:36:18 +1100, russ - maxdesign
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenoc
ean.css
Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down!
Russ
Thanks Russ, but as for myself, I believe I like the unpretentious
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