HTML Mystery

October 20th, 2005

This is a little challenge for the web designers and programmers
among you. I’ve developed a little webpage (well, little is probably an
exaggeration since it’s nothing more than a HTML comment.). Yet this
page isn’t blank – it’s got text, images and rollover effects. The
question is, how is it done?

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If you’ve worked out how it’s done, leave a comment but don’t spoil it for everyone else :)

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16 Responses to “HTML Mystery”

  1. # Neondragonon 20 Oct 2005 at 10:56 pm

    Well it just seems to be a blank page in Safari. :)

  2. # Jasidogon 21 Oct 2005 at 2:58 am

    At a poor guess we can’t see in the source what’s doing it because it involves php or something. 

  3. # Skovon 21 Oct 2005 at 10:20 am

    I know but only because i cheated ;)
    I must admidt that I didn’t think you were able to do that… :)

    @Jasidog
    PHP wouldn’t be able to hide something from the source like that ;)

  4. # Daguron 21 Oct 2005 at 6:32 pm

    This has nothing to do with your link but I have to say this:
    if you change blog software you should make sure your old rss link
    still works. I haven’t gotten any updates since August and I didn’t
    notice until today :-(

  5. # Daguron 21 Oct 2005 at 6:34 pm

    you do have a feed, right?

    (sorry for the double-post)

  6. # Khloon 21 Oct 2005 at 10:08 pm

    Sorry, I should have redirected it. The new RSS feed can be found at:

    http://cow.neondragon.net/rdf.php?rss=1
  7. # Khloon 22 Oct 2005 at 10:24 pm

    Improved the aesthetics – removed the red and added a background image.

    It seems like quite a few people have worked it out – I’ll post a full solution and explanation later. 

  8. # Justinon 23 Oct 2005 at 7:44 am

    I think I’ve figured it out now too. Mind posting the answer so I can see if I was correct?

  9. # Khloon 23 Oct 2005 at 9:51 am

    Go on then :)

  10. # Chrisdohon 23 Oct 2005 at 11:13 am

    Just like #3/Skov I didn’t knew one was able to do that… well more precisely I didn’t knew the browser would take it. Though I wouldn’t consider looking at that “place” cheating. I do that all the time.

  11. # Juan Manuelon 23 Oct 2005 at 10:13 pm

    Link: ; REL=”stylesheet”; MEDIA=”screen”

     

    http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/nocode.css ;

     

    I found it :P  

     

  12. # Justinon 24 Oct 2005 at 2:49 am

    Yup just like Juan said, a header is being sent which is refrencing to the nocode.css file which then has the display and hover and such things.

    Found it when viewing the cache entry in firefox’s about:cache.

  13. # Muon 25 Oct 2005 at 11:33 pm

    web developer toolbar

  14. # Samedion 28 Jul 2007 at 5:12 am

    Cool!!:DDD

    very smart 

  15. # tomon 27 Mar 2008 at 10:43 am

    it doesn’t work

  16. # Digoryon 23 Jun 2008 at 6:03 pm

    It doesn’t work in safari. So….I can’t really guess what is happening.

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