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256b.htm (D)HTML Coding Competition by WildMag and TAP

256b.htm Competition

Please note that this competition was held in early 2002 where Firefox did not existed. Many entries run in Internet Explorer 6 only.

Rules

The task was to create a tiny website in 256 bytes, using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, GIF, Flash, SVG, VRML and so on. The main rules where:

1. Total size of all files must be less or equal to 256 bytes.
2. The entry have to run offline in one of the commonly used web browsers (in 2002 this were Internet Explorer 6, Opera 6, Netscape 6 and Mozilla 0.9).

Additional rules where:

1. The code don't have to be valid, cross-browser or DOM compatible.
2. All plugin based technologies are allowed.
3. It's not allowed to use the file name as source code.

Results

Round 1 was held at wildmag.de in February/March 2002. Download round 1 final package (80 KB) including detailed results, some bonus entries and a collection of flags.

Round 2 was held at tap.wildmag.de in August/September 2002. Download round 2 final package (42 KB) including detailed results and some bonus entries.

Entries

| ----- | | Rnd. | Rank | Points | Author – Entry | Compati­bility |
| 1 | 1. | 8.92 | Poi – Metaballs | Info | | 2 | 1. | 8.27 | Poi – Clouds | Info | | 2 | 2. | 8.13 | Poi – Bricks | Info | | 2 | 3. | 7.36 | Milov – Entropy | Info | | 2 | 4. | 7.31 | Poi – Ski | Info | | 2 | 5. | 7.19 | Delax – Galaxies | Info | | 1 | 2. | 7.14 | Mados – Divo | Info | | 2 | 6. | 7.13 | RType – Dancing Lights | Info | | 2 | 7. | 7.10 | Mados – Plasma | Info | | 1 | 3. | 6.97 | Tech – Satellite | Info | | 2 | 8. | 6.75 | RType – Space Milk | Info | | 2 | 9. | 6.73 | FPS – RubyStar | Info | | 1 | 4. | 6.68 | Milov – Wavular | Info | | 1 | 5. | 6.65 | Bonz – Mandelbrot | Info | | 1 | 6. | 6.64 | Milov – Noise | Info | | 1 | 7. | 6.54 | Mados – Plastic | Info | | 1 | 8. | 6.43 | Psikorp – Splinecrap | Info | | 1 | 9. | 6.42 | Iotic – Mouse Moire | Info | | 1 | 10. | 6.31 | Poi – Bounce | Info | | 2 | 10. | 6.25 | Nowak – Simple Cellular Growth | Info | | 1 | 11. | 6.23 | ScriptGuru – ASCII Fishies | Info | | 2 | 11. | 6.20 | FPS – AutoShapes | Info | | 1 | 12. | 6.17 | ScriptGuru – Serpinski | Info | | 1 | 13. | 6.11 | Iotic – Moire | Info | | 2 | 12. | 6.09 | Nowak – Ribbon | Info | | 2 | 13. | 6.07 | Milov – Snowflake Generator | Info | | 2 | 14. | 6.07 | Mados – Flowers | Info | | 1 | 14. | 6.00 | MrMessiah – Fake Raster II | Info | | 2 | 15. | 5.94 | FPS – ColorChooser | Info | | 1 | 15. | 5.89 | Milov – Spike | Info | | 1 | 16. | 5.86 | MrHeat – Inkblot | Info | | 1 | 17. | 5.86 | Salice – K | — | | 1 | 18. | 5.81 | Milov – The Fly | Info | | 1 | 19. | 5.76 | Poi – World Domination | Info | | 2 | 16. | 5.67 | Milov – Keyboard Racer | Info | | 2 | 17. | 5.63 | AxelF – Amiga Scroller | Info | | 1 | 20. | 5.63 | ScriptGuru – Slither | Info | | 1 | 21. | 5.51 | Xorn – 80s Char Edit | Info | | 1 | 22. | 5.41 | ScriptGuru – Julia | Info | | 2 | 18. | 5.40 | Nowak – Langtons Virtual Ant | Info | | 1 | 23. | 5.40 | MrHeat – Self-Dump | Info | | 1 | 24. | 5.39 | Bonz – Feather | Info | | 1 | 25. | 5.36 | MadMan – Style | — | | 1 | 26. | 5.33 | Psikorp – Distort | Info | | 1 | 27. | 5.31 | Milov – Evil Twin | Info | | 2 | 19. | 5.29 | Mados – Jumpy | Info | | 1 | 28. | 5.27 | Shr – Juli | Info | | 2 | 20. | 5.20 | Gargaj – Ugly 2 0 | Info | | 1 | 29. | 5.20 | Poi – Rotozoom | Info | | 1 | 30. | 5.20 | Salice – Palme | Info | | 2 | 21. | 5.13 | Nelius – Wannabee 3D-Drop | Info | | 1 | 31. | 5.11 | Hultgreen – I Am Insane | Info | | 1 | 32. | 5.06 | Mados – Out Of Order | Info | | 2 | 22. | 4.93 | Uzec – NoName | Info | | 2 | 23. | 4.93 | Gargaj – Sinuszoom | Info | | 1 | 33. | 4.91 | Gargaj – Ugly | Info | | 2 | 24. | 4.87 | Midcoast – The Wormhole | Info | | 2 | 25. | 4.81 | Sid – The Bouncer | Info | | 2 | 26. | 4.75 | Rowan – The Sixth Hour | Info | | 1 | 34. | 4.73 | Sdw – C64 | Info | | 2 | 27. | 4.69 | Wolfman – St Patricks Day | Info | | 2 | 28. | 4.56 | Sid – SimpleZoom | Info | | 2 | 29. | 4.53 | Gargaj – Trajectory | Info | | 1 | 35. | 4.52 | Laos – Hairy Nut | Info | | 2 | 30. | 4.50 | Rowan – Glowing Cross | Info | | 1 | 36. | 4.48 | Laos – Fleas Perspective | Info | | 2 | 31. | 4.47 | Uzec – Fraktal2 | Info | | 1 | 37. | 4.45 | Shr – Roti | Info | | 2 | 32. | 4.44 | Delax – Fake Plasmalines | Info | | 2 | 33. | 4.40 | Midcoast – The Psycho Button | Info | | 2 | 34. | 4.40 | Uzec – Fraktal1 | Info | | 2 | 35. | 4.38 | Nelius – Epitrochoid | Info | | 1 | 38. | 4.29 | Flec – TicTacTo | Info | | 2 | 36. | 4.27 | Midcoast – Line Art | Info | | 1 | 39. | 4.26 | Laos – Illuminating Cone | Info | | 1 | 40. | 4.25 | MrHeat – Click Here | Info | | 1 | 41. | 4.11 | ScriptGuru – CountDown | Info | | 1 | 42. | 4.11 | Raist – Flamethrower | Info | | 2 | 37. | 4.06 | 23JUL – To Move Consoles | Info | | 1 | 43. | 4.03 | Salice – Boxs | Info | | 1 | 44. | 4.03 | Gargaj – Minimal | Info | | 2 | 38. | 4.00 | Mips – Scrolling Of Meandering String | Info | | 1 | 45. | 3.80 | Mados – Lightswitch | Info | | 2 | 39. | 3.75 | Mips – Scrolling Of Feathery String | Info | | 1 | 46. | 3.71 | Tomaes – Booo | Info | | 1 | 47. | 3.51 | Mados – Confirm | Info | | 1 | 48. | 3.38 | Raist – Jumping Jack On Green Playground | Info | | 1 | 49. | 3.36 | PigPen – Totaliator | Info | | 1 | 50. | 3.31 | Salice – Huepfman | — | | 1 | 51. | 3.23 | Ryu – Plasma | Info | | 1 | 52. | 3.16 | Flec – American Flag | Info | | 1 | 53. | 3.13 | Delax – Stargate En Bleu | Info | | 1 | 54. | 3.00 | Noize – Altered Subset | Info | | 1 | 55. | 2.86 | Ozon – Fade | Info | | 2 | 40. | 2.80 | 23JUL – Huemore Consoles | Info | | 2 | 41. | 2.69 | Boatman – Make IT Easy | Info | | 1 | 56. | 2.68 | Ozon – Blue | Info | | 1 | 57. | 2.53 | LooN – Tunnel | Info | | 2 | 42. | 2.47 | Nelius – Diy | Info | | 1 | 58. | 2.43 | Mrfrost – Matrix | Info | | 1 | 59. | 2.42 | Nelius – Schmoer2 | — | | 1 | 60. | 2.42 | Nelius – Schmoer1 | — | | 1 | 61. | 2.14 | SceneFreund – Ich Habe Es Wenigstens Versucht | Info | | 1 | 62. | 1.83 | Gargaj – Hungary | Info | | 2 | 43. | 0.50 | Mips – News | Info | | 1 | — | — | Bushy – First Timer | Info | | 1 | — | — | Karl – Classical | Info | | 1 | — | — | Mados – Breakout | Info | | 2 | — | — | Mados – Quicksort | Info | | 2 | — | — | Mados – Superdot | Info | | 2 | — | — | Mados – Swirl | Info | | 2 | — | — | Mados – Text2Bin | Info | | 2 | — | — | Milov – Keyboard Racer (colored By Poi) | — | | 2 | — | — | Nowak – Canada | — | | 2 | — | — | Poi – Flying-windows | — | | 1 | — | — | Salice – Marsattakks | Info | | 2 | — | — | Sdw – Swedish Flagwave | Info |
| Rnd. | Rank | Points | Author – Entry | Compati­bility |

Other Competitions

• js13kGames
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• 7kb competition (archive)
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• 256b.com, the 256 bytes demo archive (archive)
• 140byt.es

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