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diff --git a/diagonal-scroll.html b/diagonal-scroll.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a216b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/diagonal-scroll.html @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>diagonal scroll</title> + <style> + /* CSS abuse */ + div { + left: -500px; /* The div is shifted to the left so the left side of the p elements don't get clipped */ + top: 0px; + position: fixed; /* Make the div fill the entire screen */ + width: 1000px; + height: 100vh; + overflow: scroll; /* This adds the diagonal scroll bar */ + transform-origin: top left; + transform: skewX(45deg); /* I originally used a rotate transform, but the math is way easier when using skewX */ + font-family: Hack, Noto Mono, monospace; + line-height: 1.5em; + } + p { + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: 0; + width: 500px; + transform-origin: top left; + transform: skewX(-45deg); + } + span { + /* This adds a block of empty space at the bottom of the div */ + /* Otherwise, if the screen is taller than its width, the text at the bottom will be to the right of the screen's right edge */ + display: inline-block; + height: calc(100vh - 100vw + 400px); + transform-origin: top left; + transform: skewX(-45deg); + } + .secret { + color: white; + } + </style> + </head> + <body> + <div> + <p>oh, great. another doe-eyed rebellious anime girl to add to the endless parade of generics that litter the media landscape. ennui, huh? well, isn't that just perfect.</p> + <p>ennui had a seething hatred for modern society, because honestly, who doesn't? she despised the endless monotonicity, er, i meant monotony, of her life and the only emotion she could feel nowadays was boredom. endless, dull, tedious boredom!</p> + <p>one day, ennui had the brilliant idea of running away from home and going for a joyride on the trans-siberian railway. because, you know, nothing screams excitement quite like sitting in a cramped, musty train for days on end.</p> + <p>after breaking multiple countries' multiple laws, the first five seconds aboard the train were a flurry of excitement, but boredom returned as quickly as it had departed. suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, ennui noticed a visibly troubled young man with an exceptionally bad haircut. since she had nothing better to do, ennui roasted his hairstyle, but the man took it as a compliment, and they struck up a slightly less boring conversation.</p> + <p>he introduced himself as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230526184241/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Qi">ben qi</a>, a three-time international olympiad in informatics winner, as if anyone cares. yeah, i'm sure ennui was just thrilled to have met such an exciting and charming individual.</p> + <p>but wait, it gets even better! ennui nosily asked ben qi what was bothering him, because that's totally a question you ask a stranger you just met 30 seconds ago. ben qi just replied cryptically, "i have a secret. a deep, dark, beleaguering secret gnawing away at my soul. and i'll tell you what it is, if and only if, you become an ioi winner like me."</p> + <p>so, because ennui was so utterly bored with life, she immersed herself into ioi training, living and breathing dijkstra's algorithm, avx2-accelerated segment trees, and the knuth-yao dp speedup. robert tarjan the algorithm man soon started haunting her dreams.</p> + <p>and then, surprise surprise, she actually won the ioi! because, you know, that's totally realistic.</p> + <p>long at last, the moment had come. ben qi smiled proudly and said, "congrats ennui! you're now an ioi winner! and now i must fulfill my side of the biconditional. i'm going to reveal to you my secret."</p> + <p>ennui leaned forward eagerly, her heart pounding with anticipation. finally! she had waited so long, sacrificed so much, suffered through so many robert tarjan nightmares! finally!</p> + <p>ben qi took a deep breath and ponderously whispered in a hushed tone—oh wait, i must interrupt! you see, dear reader, i cannot reveal to you what ben qi's secret is. why, you ask? well, simply put, unlike ennui, you are not an ioi winner.</p> + <span><a class="secret" href="you-thought-I-would-just-tell-you?">the secret</a></span> + </div> + </body> +</html> |