The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World
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Today somebody showed me the webpage of this Finnish pizza place:
I asked him "what's supposed to be so remarkable about it? It's a menu list, is there anything funny on it?". Then he pressed CtrlF5 to reload the page...
I made a backup at http://archive.fo/rednF - there you can see how all the characters are separate, unique images, though the archival page actually embedded them in the HTML hence losing the loading "effect" seen in the video.
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(Also, if you are wondering why the movie is 2 minutes: I was using mobile tethering when recording it, more bandwidth will obviously load it faster)
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Unfortunately BabylonJS name is already taken, but I'm sure coming up with something catchy won't be a problem.
Just an idea...
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
more bandwidth will obviously load it faster)
Not really, I just tried it, still took upwards of 1.7 minutes.
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1: Video zooming strikes again.
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@JBert It's like FontAwesome! But worst!
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@pie_flavor said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
1: Video zooming strikes again.
you should know better by now...
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Yes, have you changed anything since the last time you complained about your incompatibility?
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@loopback0 said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
We could send them a proposal to use a CDN.
Filed under: Maybe we could even group some characters into 1024x1024 spritemaps, that way it'll load quicker
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@Tsaukpaetra Nope! What was I supposed to do again?
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@pie_flavor said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Tsaukpaetra Nope! What was I supposed to do again?
Get gud.
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@loopback0
it was only Finnish after 28.94s?
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
We could send them a proposal to use a CDN.
Filed under: Maybe we could even group some characters into 1024x1024 spritemaps, that way it'll load quicker
Site where all the text is written using Discourse default avatars, GO!
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Well, the main page loaded fine I guess. This far it got all images names as numbers, the page is titled "index" and the other pages are linked as
index_2.htmlindex_3.htmletc and the HTML points at it being made using Xara Web Designer. Shitloads of sectioning elements and, uh, what... Oh no...
Absolute positioning of every row of text in the blurb.
And they even got the text going in under the images.
And now for the menu... Oh... Oh... It's even worse than I expected. Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images! Gah! facepalm And the second part of the menu uses a completely new set of letters. Can't reuse a single image on this site!
At least they got pizzas with, uh, pickled cucumber. Can't say I have seen that before.
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@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png.
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Finnish
@loopback0 said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
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@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images!
I told you so in the OP:
all the characters are separate images
EDIT: Ok, I made it more clear by editing the OP.
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images!
I told you so in the OP:
all the characters are separate images
He was so astonished he forgot.
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images!
I told you so in the OP:
all the characters are separate images
I think we all kinda assumed there's
A.png, notA_0_1.png,A_0_2.png...
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@Onyx said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images!
I told you so in the OP:
all the characters are separate images
I think we all kinda assumed there's
A.png, notA_0_1.png,A_0_2.png...Well, up until I watched the video. Watching that was like watching a freight train crash; slow, but it just keeps going.
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@JBert said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
Every. Single. Letter. is its own .png. They dont even reuse the images!
I told you so in the OP:
all the characters are separate images
Sure, but that could be read as, "there's an image for 'a' that's used for all the 'a's," whereas the reality is much, much scarier.
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You've got to admire the commitment of the person who wrote that code. Whether they actually coded each letter-as-an-image one by one, or whether they wrote some text-to-HTML converter that creates one image per letter of the input text, actually writing that code to the end without realizing how much of a
you're creating really requires some, uh, single-mindedness? Not giving-a-fuck^10-ness?I mean, at some point, even a clueless newbie intern who doesn't care at all should have realized that they were
. And yet they kept on, and on. There is a front page story (inb4...) behind this if I ever saw one.
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@JBert This is horrifying.
I'm not going to blame the pizza place because I doubt they built that themselves. Someone someone spent their time building an "export to HTML" function for some graphic designer that renders and saves the page like that.
I mean, a single big .png image would have been better. Include an invisible text-only version if you're worried about screen readers.
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@loopback0 said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
That works out to 440 bytes per request. Surprisingly better than I expected. Though it probably does not include HTTP overhead.
Also 90.5 requests per second, I don't know how good that number is.
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Someone on our dev team is of the opinion that it is an implementation of the Speed-Up Loop
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TRWTF is watching 2 minutes of a black rectangle.
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@NeighborhoodButcher ??? The WebM video didn't load for you?
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@JBert not only it didn't load, but the player layout itself is broken:
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How on earth did you even find this? I know Google has some OCR capabilities to overcome image text complications with poor SEO'd websites, but this takes it to a whole new level. The site can't possibly be at all searchable besides its title.
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@The_Quiet_One The URL got shown and sent to me by someone else, so no clue whether it traveled from someone in Finland through chat or reddit to that person. Let's say it traveled through meme-space.
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@Atazhaia said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
At least they got pizzas with, uh, pickled cucumber. Can't say I have seen that before.
I have. Unfortunately.
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: Those fonts look cool, but what if our users don't have any fonts installed? Just use pictures of letters, that way it works for everyone!
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@mott555 said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
: Those fonts look cool, but what if our users don't have any fonts installed? Just use pictures of letters, that way it works for everyone!I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was the actual reasoning behind it. Doesn't explain the "unique image for each and every letter" but I think plain stupidity explains that pretty well.
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@MrL
Why can't I upload files on mobile? Also:
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@Akko said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
plain stupity explains that pretty well.
That does explain a lot.
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This has to be some inane authoring tool that had an "export to HTML" option that does a complete dumb. Or maybe even several layers of dumb... vectorize, export to PDF, then convert to HTML...
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I mean, hell, even the text in the logo has been generated with a separate PNG for each letter -- pre-rotated to the correct angle and then positioned just so.
I expected that to just be a single image.
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@anotherusername said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
This has to be some inane authoring tool that had an "export to HTML" option that does a complete dumb. Or maybe even several layers of dumb... vectorize, export to PDF, then convert to HTML...
The Generator tag says "Xara HTML filter v4". Searching around shows versions up through 8 for the filter; Xara's software pages say their Web Designer and Page & Layout Designer programs are on version 11.
Either they're using a really old program to make their site, or they made it ages ago and never updated it.
Side note: Corel licensed Xara's software for a while in the late 90s, before CSS fonts were a popular thing.
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@swayde said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@MrL
Why can't I upload files on mobile? Also:The upload button is to the right. You have to scroll the post actions bar across
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@HardwareGeek said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Akko said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
plain stupity explains that pretty well.
That does explain a lot.
The one time I could have actually used autocorrect -_-
I have an excuse though: English is a second language to me XP
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@Akko said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@HardwareGeek said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
@Akko said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
plain stupity explains that pretty well.
That does explain a lot.
The one time I could have actually used autocorrect -_-
I have an excuse though: English is a second language to me XP
You still use Windows XP? What language did you set it to, then?
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@pie_flavor said in The Pizza Store With the Most Slices in the World:
You still use Windows XP?
Yes, pretty much anytime I use an ATM, apparently :|
What language did you set it to, then?
English, of course. I only make mistakes when writing it, I can read it perfectly well ;)
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Good pizza takes time to add all of the toppings by hand.
2018-09-03_16-35-23.mp4
