<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/af40459a-08fc-42b7-b169-e0f549f7bc22/51B2E0EE-3E99-45AB-BF27-F94D17F6D4ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geeksaresexy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><H2 id="post-17054"><A title="Permanent Link to A Hidden Gem in HTML" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/">A Hidden Gem in HTML</A></H2></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geeksaresexy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><P>I don’t know how one goes about finding these things, but someone noticed a weird source code for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.fujinonbinos.com/">this page</A>. It’s a very basic, unspectacular catalog page for Fujinon Binoculars. But take a look at the source code.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geeksaresexy.net/img/A40B5A18-35B1-4E8F-A931-4F932BA1F7C7" alt="520fujicodescreenshot" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><P>This screenshot is but a tiny part of the madness. Keep scrolling down the code for the full effect. I’ll wait. Apparently, the designer cares very deeply about the 8 point font. It was funny enough to get posted to <A target="_blank" href="http://www.b3ta.com/">b3ta</A> and even made the weekly <A target="_blank" href="http://www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue391/">newsletter</A>. Lots of folks <A target="_blank" href="http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/12892.aspx">laughed at it</A> because it seemed so pointless. But that’s just the beginning of the story.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><P>This turned out to be about so much more than the 8 point font. If you take the entire source code and lay it on its side, you get this. <IMG width="517" height="101" alt="517Fujicodeflippd" src="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/517Fujicodeflippd.png" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><P>Which doesn’t mean anything in itself, but take a look at the Google Earth view from Fujinon’s headquarters as you look toward Mount Fuji, as <A target="_blank" href="http://www.b3ta.com/links/Fujitsu_care_deeply_about_the_layout_of_their_code">posted to b3ta</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geeksaresexy.net/img/5DD86D3D-999B-4EE3-A313-9B78FC92C569" alt="520_fujitsu-mountain-view" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><P>And then overlay the source code (seen in yellow here) onto the image.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/09/01/a-hidden-gem-in-html/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geeksaresexy.net/img/0C60F8EE-9257-4442-9A7C-2D01DF19705D" alt="520_fujitsu-mountain-code-overlay" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/51B2E0EE-3E99-45AB-BF27-F94D17F6D4ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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