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The World’s Longest Web Page
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. :)
Unfortunately, I don’t know what Ralf’s record-breaking page looks like (code-wise)… I’d love to know, because after all, this is a pretty weird record — it all depends on your definition of web page
. Should a HTML file contain any text in order to be classified as “web page”? Is a HTML file which only consists of some JavaScript a web page?
Leaving out the JavaScript method (document.write() times a zillion!), CSS is the first thing that comes to mind. body { height: 1597606299px; }, beyatch! Pas de chemin — after a little experimenting I found out that the maximum value for the height property is 71582788px. (Add one pixel, and things go wrong.) Moral of the story? We’ll need 1,597,606,299 / 71,582,788 = 22.31830226 elements with such a height to equal the record, so at least 23 to break it.
So here we go: The World’s Longest Web Page (Built With Web Standards), Beating The Previous Record By At Least 48,797,825 Pixels And 21 KiloBytes. Ralf’s pixel/filesize–ratio is 1,597,606,299 / 21,698 = 73,629:1, mine’s ( 23 * 71,582,788 ) / 0.6 = 2,744,006,873:1. The following function roughly calculates all this: y = ( x * 71,585,788 ) / ( 294 / 1024 + 9 * x / 1024 ), in which x is of course the number of elements with a height of 71,582,788 pixels, and y the number of pixels per kilobyte of file size — the ratio. For example, a file with 100 big-ass paragraphs would have a total height of 7,158,578,800 pixels (2525.39 kilometres!), a file size of 1.17 kB, and thus have approximately 6,139,350,663 pixels per kB.
(Seriously, did I just break a world record?!)
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You’re funny.
You should write the Guinness World Records and ask to be put in their book :D.
What’s stupid is that they are quoting both the length of the page, and the file size in the record, so you could effectively say that you’ve broken the record if you either lengthen the page, or cut the filesize. In fact, why not make a 1,597,606,299 pixel page that lists all the different possibilities to break the record? It could probably be accomplished with some code to output the page and examples into a directory — you might get a little short on storage space though ;).
An interesting follow-up to this would be “testing the limits of CSS” — testing limits of various things (height, font size, etc.) in different browsers (rather than just Firefox). That would be cool.
Holy shit, you’re crazy. Good stuff, but you’re totally crazy.
Guess you made your first world record.
You know you’re right, Jon:
I guess we’ll have to wait…
(Yay, I’m both funny and crazy.)
That’s cool! I hope they put you in there! :)
Ahaha, now that’s just brilliant! Fear the power of CSS! If it wasn’t such a bad pickup line, I’d almost share this story with girls. ;)
Do keep us updated.
Haha that’s crazy…
Good luck with getting in the Guinness Book of World Records! =D
Dude, if you get into the GBOWR I will totally buy a copy.
But you are one crazy mofo.
You are now officially and certifiably mad!!!
Great.
Hey Mathias, have you seen this page?
Mind bogggggling.
Yeah, Colin — you said it correctly: if I get in the book.
Oh well, we’ll see. Receiving a Offical Guinness World Records Certificate is good enough for me :)
Holy shit, Dante!!! That’s so very cool! To know methionylalanylthreonyl…leucine is only the second longest chemical name to be written down…
Three words:
Oh… My… God…
So detail :O
I think I just beat your craziness.
Note to future readers: do not attempt to print the page!
You are one clever crazy geek.
Come on, it’s all white space. How about some
hr’s or a slim, repeating background to show you that you’re actually scrolling down something?That would of course increase the page’s file size, which is something I tried to avoid as much as possible.
I estimate that one can press PgDn? for about three days on that page until the end is reached.
Crazyness in all its glory :P.
When will you know if they accepted it?
As I wrote earlier, it usually takes between 4 and 6 weeks for the GWR folks to reply to a record application. I’ll keep you posted!
Holy crap… Looks like someone has a lot of time on their hands!
My hair is on fire!
*April Fools!*
Meow,
Victoria
Here, with images. :-O
LOL!
It’s Retarted
I got this in my mail today.
Honestly, I don’t understand. Ralf Laue’s page once got accepted, so why doesn’t mine? Oh well… Official or not, I think I can say I created the World’s Longest Web Page. :)
this is fucking crap i hate this site i am going to kill you and rip your head off you suck dick i typed in gay porn and this is the site i got!! i am so angry!!! u r dead!!!
Ah damn, sorry to hear that, they suck ;)
I bet it’s because they can’t define a “web page” correctly, as mentioned in other comments.
You have some competition! :)
Yeah, or perhaps because of the fact that I couldn’t be bothered to pay £250 for their fabulous Fast Track service.
Wow, 1010.08 kilometres… Pussies. C’mon, Even I could beat that through JavaScript! :P
This site is definately not very long… This site is the gayest site ever…
Hahahaha, that really cracked me up! :-) Good one!
Here’s a link to the REAL world’s largest web page. http://longestwebpage.com/
Yeah, whatever. Please allow me to quote myself: Beat that, beyatchiz!
Bwa ha! 865bytes + 4bytes for the filename.
Would be a lot smaller if not for that damn fancy formatting regex that makes commas in numbers so a human can read it…
While making this I ran into Firefox not wanting to graphically render any of the
P’s I was adding to the page… so run it in IE, which has no issue making a webpage that scrolls for bazillions of pixels.Fun stuff!
Good job, Jeff! That is the ultimate JS-solution. Forget about longestwebpage.com already.
Yeah, and I suppose you could remove some styles as well, such as
background:#ddd;border:1px solid #000;, which of course are mainly presentational, or evenmargin:0;padding:0(who cares about a little extra browser-set default whitespace — we’re talking about long web pages, aren’t we)? But that’s probably too hard-core. I dig the look of the page as it is now.Eh… I just viewed your page through Firefox 1.0.4, and everything seems to work just fine.
There always is at least one paragraph (
<p>Start</p>), so this message should never be displayed. How about ? This would of course add to the file size…Details, details ;)
I’m trying to break this world record on thelongestwebpage.com.
By the way the worlds longest website that u posted isn’t the longest. TRUST ME!!!! there is a way longer one now. (a year after post before) Its huge you can’t use mouse scroll to get down. It goes too slowly and middle mouse click and pull down takes forever too.
I’m surprised GBWR didn’t accept your submission. We’re building one now and plan to submit it to GBWR when we get it long enough. Hopefully they will be able to define it with the content we’ll have. World’s Longest Homepage
We’ve just started. The goal is to have relevant information. A page with content, built by - the entire world.
why is it that when u go to look at the print preview it only shows up as one page????
sell each 10 x 10 square of it for £1 each and you’ll make billions!
oh, and very well done aswell ;)
this sucks its not even that long u b bag!!(from jordan) so make it longer
nd yea please
okay bye xx
Maybe this will be the longest webpage now…
I’ve produced a similar page before: one that was *supposedly* a googol pixels in width. While the height property seems to be constrained, I’m not as sure about the width.