Francine: A browser support case study

If you haven’t had the pleasure of viewing developer Diana Smith’s ‘Francine’, an impeccably detailed baroque-style portrait, you can see it at https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-francine. Prepare to be blown away by the sheer power of CSS (and the obscene talent of Smith). That is, if you happen across it in a more recent version of Chrome. While Francine was only ever intended as a fun side project designed to push the limits of what we know of CSS, it’s also a fantastic demonstration in code degradation and browser compliance – loaded up in Safari, we’re dealt an image missing many of the finer details and occasionally bearing some rather unsettling curvature. Going further back and viewing in varying versions of Internet Explorer, Francine begins to resemble some kind of neo-cubist experimental piece. Could…

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