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submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The browser. When it reads the HTML and creates a DOM based on the provided instructions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So where in that can I encode an arbitrary program? Like one could do in JavaScript?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Create a table of checkboxes with the rule 110 CSS applied.
Translate your program to a rule 110 program and put it in the top row of the table.
Advance the computation by checking the marked (orange in the example) checkboxes row by row.

Example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Well yeah, with CSS and user interaction it’s understandable… as I’ve linked above.

The question was if this is possible for purely-HTML markup descriptions without CSS nor clicks, and it was a rhetorical one.