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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by mdy on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:36AM (#10072828)
Someone should make videos in old browsers. Most of the demos are not working anymore. ):

But my best entry still does: http://wildmag.de/compo/Midcoast-The_Wormhole/5.htm

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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by sp332 on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:03AM (#10072999)
You can download virtual machine images from Microsoft just for testing old versions of IE. http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/
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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by avian on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:31AM (#10073635)
> 5. It's not allowed to use the file name as source code.

I would love to see the entry that made it necessary to add this rule.

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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by foone on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:27AM (#10077605)
It's an old trick for compression/size limit competitions. You have N bytes allowed, but you can get an extra M bytes by putting them in the filename (minus however many bytes it takes to access the filename)

like if you several uncompressable (random) files you can "compress" them further by moving some of their bytes into the filenames.

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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by smpetrey on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:39AM (#10073259)
Reminds me of the Rafaël Rozendaal's work. ICYI: http://www.newrafael.com/websites/
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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by joshmn on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:24PM (#10074616)
I'm not "old" by any means, but I don't think that those born after 1997 will really understand how cool some of this stuff is. :(
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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by mdy on Sunday August 30, 2015 @03:06AM (#10142509)
!0
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Re:256b.htm Competition (2002) by ericfrederich on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:19PM (#10077454)
Yeah... I was wondering the same thing. I guess you could use some crazy long filename to encode data and "cheat"
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