Thanks to Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks for pointing out this little ditty….from Román Cortés.

Below is a screenshot of the infamous character Homer Simpson, created from CSS.

I look forward to seeing more “AcidX” variations in the future — the successor to CSS Zen perhaps?

For those interested, the “acid tests” are available at acidtests.org: an effort to provide a litmus test for W3C and standards compliance among browser makers with respect to CSS (acid2) and CSS/JavaScript (acid3).

Update: Checkout the animated version of Homer CSS…and the George Bush CSS.

Great political forum recently redesigned with speed improvements.

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“Ruby text” is a new paradigm added to the CSS 3 specification (currently in draft). It allows an author to associate and align blocks or fragments of text with each other.

“Ruby” is the term used for a run of text that is associated with another run of text, referred to as the base text. Ruby text is used to provide a short annotation of the associated base text. — CSS 3.0

<ruby>
  <rb>WWW</rb>
  <rt>World Wide Web</rt>
</ruby>

This would allow the design to place the ruby and the ruby text in the desired order, as shown here:

Common use cases will be for content written in Japanese or Chinese…although there are many examples of it in English as well.