Note: In a dramatic turn of events, the
victorious silveroranges were stripped of the award as their
entry was inadvertently placed in the wrong category.
Although traumatized by their short-lived brush with fame,
they plan to return again and take away a prize they can
keep.
Three silveroranges recently received laurels in
the 5k competition. Their
entry,
The 5k Audi TT VR Gallery
constructed entirely using Javascript and coloured table
cells entirely under 5kb, won honours in several categories.
The purpose of the competition was expressed on the original
contest site thusly:
Purpose
The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints
of designing for the web are what force us to get truly
creative. Between servers and bandwidth, clients and
users, HTML and the DOM, browsers and platforms, our
conscience and our ego, we're left in a very small space
to find highly optimal solutions. Since the space we have
to explore is so small, we have to look harder, get more
creative; and that's what makes it all interesting. Just
celebrating that is all.
Rules
All HTML, script, image, style, and any other associated
files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in
size and be entirely self-contained (employing no
server-side processing).
After a grueling qualifying process, the elite team of
judges which included Jason Fried (37signals), mschmidt + token + per (Kaliber10000), Rob "CmdrTaco" (Slashdot), Peter Seidler (Razorfish), and others ranked the entries. The silverorange entry
was in the HTML-only category and came away with a
3rd Overall
and
2nd in Functionality.
Congrats to those silveroranges who came away victorious!
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