🏎 Mario Kart: CSS 🏁
People say JavaScript is a bad language. No built-in types, a fatiguing ecosystem, and demanding you to constantly explain, “no, no, JavaScript” to anyone even vaguely non-technical.
That’s why for my new Mario Kart knock-off game, I’ve logically decided against using JavaScript at all. To be clear, this is 100% CSS. My Photoshop licence ran out a while back, so this is:
A cool thing that the CSS spec allows you to do with box-shadow and linear-gradient is to specify an arbitrary number of points. This is useful if you wanted two or three gradients, or to create some very basic CSS shapes.
It’s also helpful if you wanted to manually specify every individual pixel of an image… one-by-one… in order… directly into your stylesheet… until eventually you have the original image stored in your source file!
You might argue that this is absurd, has a much larger data cost than even the most naive image encoding, without even going into the implications of putting image-data into source files. And I might ignore your argument, and continue to speak, but slightly louder.
