July 6, 2006

The Largest Web Page In The World

[I'm out, by the way. Normal service will be resumed shortly.]

The largest web page in the world is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by 9 quadrillion pixels tall. It's designed to give you a bit of an idea of the size of the solar system. Try scrolling across it using your wheel mouse ;-)

Apparently, only Firefox can cope with it properly :-)

Posted by gerv at July 6, 2006 5:38 PM
Comments

lol its just on image repeated like 10billion times ... imagine if it was like ton's off different images it would take years to load and like more time to scroll through... i bet theres a easter egg in there like a pic with a llama or a smiley face... i wonder who'll find it first? assuming its there ... whitch it probboly is... i'm gonna find it!

Posted by: Sqwishy at July 6, 2006 5:36 PM

There's a bunch of them. Easter eggs, that is. And if you want to find them within your natural lifespan I recommend using View Source ;).

Posted by: Villa at July 6, 2006 5:47 PM

Opera can handle the page just fine too.

Posted by: Daniel at July 6, 2006 5:53 PM

Do a find for "you are here" scary stuff :)

Posted by: NeilM at July 6, 2006 6:11 PM

All that and he forgot a > on his closing html tag.

Posted by: Seth at July 6, 2006 8:14 PM

I as going to comment the same things as Seth...

"I as going to comment the same things as Seth...

"

:P


BTW, typeahead find exists for something :P:P:P

Posted by: Asrail at July 7, 2006 1:02 AM

Weird, scroll to any of the text layers (http://www.deepskyfrontier.com/#Layer22 for example), and then move the scroll arrows (not drag the scrollbar) left and right, and the text moves upwards as you scroll.

Posted by: Hanspeter at July 7, 2006 1:07 AM

I forgot...

The "center" doesn't works for me, it takes me to the left bottom corner.


@Daniel: What version of Opera are you using?
Opera 9b2 doesnt' handle fine the anchors in the page, so it's hard to navigate.

Posted by: Asrail at July 7, 2006 1:08 AM

Apparently Firefox on linux can't cope with it, the bottom right ends at ~5million for me, and the <a name=> for the 9,000,000,000,000,000 pixel corner doesn't work.

Posted by: ant at July 7, 2006 1:41 AM

Work fine with SeaMonkey 1.1 nightlies, too. Several features don't work with Opera 9.00.

Posted by: Steve Chapel at July 7, 2006 2:03 AM

Using firefox 1.5.0.3 on Gentoo Linux, the furthest I get is the "I love you Amandy!" which I'm pretty sure is supposed to be the end by the looks of the source code.

Posted by: Alan Trick at July 7, 2006 3:12 AM

I assure you that we don't handle coordinates that large, so it doesn't REALLY work.

Of course you'd know this if you'd bothered to count the stars.

Posted by: Robert O'Callahan at July 7, 2006 4:57 AM

Being in the middle, opening page source (Ctrl U), and moving the source windows make artefacts over your page (Firefox 1.5.0.4, linux mandriva 2005LE, KDE)

Posted by: Da Scritch at July 7, 2006 8:18 AM

This is why we need a long long long int type.

Posted by: HeroreV at July 8, 2006 8:15 AM

Work fine with SeaMonkey 1.1 nightlies, too. Several features don't work with Opera 9.00.

Posted by: Nikos at April 5, 2007 2:49 PM