[thelist] [fun] Now this is a really sick use of HTML tables

"C. Bergström" cbergstrom at netsyncro.com
Tue Jun 26 08:16:43 CDT 2007


Rick den Haan wrote:
> Robert O'Rourke wrote:
>   
>> Christian Heilmann wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFOB77jLaE
>>>
>>>       
>> good crikey! that made me eyes go gozzy.
>>
>> so which file is smaller? the HTML or the image? :-P
>>     
>
> I ran a comparison on that :-P I took a 2445x1767 stock photo and ran a PHP
> script to convert it to a table based HTML file. I didn't take rowspan and
> colspan into account, so each image pixel is its own td, but the 2 MB jpeg
> image turned into a 263 MB HTML file... For those interested:
> <http://prive.rickdenhaan.net/swimming.jpg> and
> <http://prive.rickdenhaan.net/swimming.html>. It's on my private server at
> home, though, which isn't too fast a connection.
>
>   
>> would it kill a pc to use javascript to animate something like that?
>>     
>
> Probably :-)
>   
I think you guys may have fun with this

http://php.lighttpd.net/?render_style=div&show_blocks=1

./C



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