So these guys have a contest something like the classic 5k contest. Except the rules are stupid lenient (library and FONTS don’t count). The whole fun of the 5k contest is that the limitations are so strict it causes some real creativity.
Worst still, the first entry, by this guy, is 141.04kb with 12 requests and just shows ‘hello world’.
So, because I was up at 6 with the baby this morning I re-did the example (without pretty fonts) in under 5kb and one request. (actually only 2.2k gziped)
Doesn’t actually meet the rules, because css transitions don’t work in IE 9. Also I kind of cheated by making a document that isn’t technically valid and using a much crappier image. And I double cheated by requiring Firefox 4, chrome or safari.