neville park<p>So I was rereading a cool arachnid evo-devo paper, and I wondered…</p><p>Could you make a simple "animal" as a web page, using <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a> and <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> as <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Hox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hox</span></a> genes and body plan, so that people could tweak things using browser dev tools to hide/duplicate/alter the presentation of elements, the way scientists knock down or upregulate genes to see what it does to the animal?</p><p>Evo-devo stuff has always reminded me of using "display: none !important" or "border: 1px solid red" to figure out what CSS rules do. And like CSS Zen Garden—radically altering the look of a page with CSS without touching the HTML.</p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/EvoDevo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EvoDevo</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/appendages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appendages</span></a></p>