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#1 2009-10-30 09:45:44

Bloke
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Abuse of HTML tables

Apologies if this is old news (it was done back in 2007; being totally hip and on the ball I only just stumbled across it).

In the dark years before CSS, hands up those of you who used to use table-based positioning, one-pixel gif tricks and/or cell colour manipulation when they started out? Don’t be shy; I did. But did you ever think to abuse HTML tables to this degree?

Amazing and somehow disturbing in equal measure :-o


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#2 2009-10-30 14:10:12

Zanza
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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

Amazing! But I have to admit that I have thought at that “pixelizing” use of table before. Never had the courage to try, though… :)

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#3 2009-10-30 15:57:34

Neko
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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

That’s pretty awesome, actually. In a very twisted way, but still…

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#4 2009-10-30 18:28:31

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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

Saw this a couple years ago. Personally, I love this sort of thing – going bass ackwards using HTML elements to produce imagery.

I’m sure an JS developer with a some time on his/her hands could come up with a script to convert a simple PNG into tables. But the tricky part would be combining rows and cells to decrease the overall markup.


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#5 2009-10-30 19:04:46

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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

It reminds me of this one

Web art at its pointless.


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#6 2009-10-31 00:48:22

kvnmcwebn
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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

Mad. This reminds me, is anyone a member of the wsg list any more? It used to rock back in the day eh.


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#7 2009-12-14 10:27:07

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Re: Abuse of HTML tables

Waouw really impressive!

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