A wonderful experiment in CSS coding – an animated model of the Solar System (Safari only, even Chrome’s kind of buggy). Two points to make: I really admire the coder for having the imagination to come up with the project and the skills to do it (he also did another one with typography earlier); and I love how the limitations of the medium led him to a representation of the Solar System which the Ancients (and Copernicus, for that matter) would have found much to their liking: one where the orbits are perfectly circular.
More about the experiment on Alex Giron’s website (well worth a look even just for a screenshot of how IE renders the whole thing). Bonus material: a more scientifically accurate, less visually stunning, but no less captivating model in CSS here.
