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Archive for March 2005
The World’s Longest Web Page (42)
I was flickin’ through my copy of Guinness World Records 2001 when I read the following: In March 1999, Ralf Laue (Leipzig, Germany), made a web page with a length of 563.6 kilometres and a file size of only 21,698 kB.
Say what? Let’s get a little mathematic on this. 563.6 kilometres equals 563.6 * 1000 * 100 = 56,360,000 centimetres, which is ( 56,360,000 * 72.000 ) / 2.540 = 1,597,606,299 pixels on a resolution of 72.000 pixels per inch (one inch equals 2.540 centimetres). So, to break the record basically all you need is a page with a height of 1,597,606,300 pixels. :) Read more →
- The not so off-topic commentary on Indranil’s Hyperlinks Over the Ages inspired me into making this favelet. Shout it out: Paul! I think I’m not the only one who sometimes desperately wants to see how a page would look with a little Fitts’ Law applied to body text links. My preferation goes out to
padding: 2px 1px 1px;, which works pretty good for most sites; Herr Mientjes however seems to preferpadding: 4px 0;. Enjoy. (8) ¶ - Inspired by Anne van Kesteren’s Dutch flag in CSS, which was in turn inspired by the Canadian flag in CSS linking a British flag in CSS, I created (guess what) the Belgian flag in CSS. Since the three bars aren’t quite horizontal, this is not as easy to “design” as for example the German CSS flag, but hey, I managed. Consider this a CSS stunt. (13) ¶