css-only-chat VS VecStack

The idea of using CSS-triggered requests for analytics was really cool to me when I first encountered it.

One guy on twitter (no longer available) used it for mouse tracking: overlay an invisible grid of squares on the page, each with a unique background image triggered on hover. Each background image sends a specific request to the server, which interprets it!

For fun one summer, I extended that idea to create a JS-free "css only async web chat": https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

Isn't CSS Turing complete? Someone even implemented a chat client in it: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

If it's something like a new reply to an issue raised, then you can either have it so these only show when the page reloads. Depending on how critical these notifications are, probably not the best solution. An alternative is to have a page that never stops loading. I've never actually used this approach, but I remember this guy used the approach for a JS-free chat system: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

Here's an actual CSS-only implementation of a chat app that I happened to stumble across yesterday while tinkering: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

Fun fact, my college intro to programming course was taught in Scheme. Most recently I dug lightly into Forth for the sake of making my own stack based programming language (it's very bad and unpolished, but a fun esolang), and that idea also happens a lot in Forth. It's a good and valuable way to think about programming, regardless of your programming paradigm!