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I’m looking for the most hipster way to reduce the HTML semantics (css can be big as necessary) this 4 color logo without using pictures anything can change in the structure. Only requirement is that it works in IE8. I am using selectivr and modernizr so most selector classes and such should work. Additionally, I’m using less css so if you can write like that too.

  <ul class="logo">
    <li class="webBG"></li>
    <li class="designBG"></li>
    <li class="videoBG"></li>
    <li class="audioBG"></li>
  </ul>

CSS

ul.logo{margin: 0 0 0 10px;padding: 0;list-style-type: none;}
ul.logo li{display: inline-block; width:5px;height:5px; padding:0;margin:0; float:left;}
.designBG{background:#00c8e8}
.videoBG{background:#33cc77}
.webBG{background:#ec8544}
.audioBG{background:#E58}

UPDATE FINAL SOLUTION

#boilerplate > div{
margin-left:10px;

width:20px;
height:5px;

/*cross browser definitions follow..*/
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left,
                        #ec8544 0%, #ec8544 25%,
                        #00c8e8 26%, #00c8e8 50%,
                        #33cc77 51%, #33cc77 75%,
                        #Ee5588 76%, #Ee5588 100%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left,
                        #ec8544 0%, #ec8544 25%,
                        #00c8e8 26%, #00c8e8 50%,
                        #33cc77 51%, #33cc77 75%,
                        #Ee5588 76%, #Ee5588 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left,
                        #ec8544 0%, #ec8544 25%,
                        #00c8e8 26%, #00c8e8 50%,
                        #33cc77 51%, #33cc77 75%,
                        #Ee5588 76%, #Ee5588 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(left,
                        #ec8544 0%, #ec8544 25%,
                        #00c8e8 26%, #00c8e8 50%,
                        #33cc77 51%, #33cc77 75%,
                        #Ee5588 76%, #Ee5588 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(left,
                        #ec8544 0%, #ec8544 25%,
                        #00c8e8 26%, #00c8e8 50%,
                        #33cc77 51%, #33cc77 75%,
                        #Ee5588 76%, #Ee5588 100%);

}​

HTML

<div></div>

Answer 1

least html possible:

http://jsfiddle.net/VRXjc/7/

1. Create 1 div

2. Use CSS Gradients to make the colors

3. Set Margins, Height and Width to style

HTML:

<div id="logo"></div>

CSS:

#logo{
background: #ec8544; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left,  #ec8544 25%, #00c8e8 25%, #00c8e8 50%, #33cc77 50%, #33cc77 75%, #ee5588 75%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, color-stop(25%,#ec8544), color-stop(25%,#00c8e8), color-stop(50%,#00c8e8), color-stop(50%,#33cc77), color-stop(75%,#33cc77), color-stop(75%,#ee5588)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left,  #ec8544 25%,#00c8e8 25%,#00c8e8 50%,#33cc77 50%,#33cc77 75%,#ee5588 75%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(left,  #ec8544 25%,#00c8e8 25%,#00c8e8 50%,#33cc77 50%,#33cc77 75%,#ee5588 75%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left,  #ec8544 25%,#00c8e8 25%,#00c8e8 50%,#33cc77 50%,#33cc77 75%,#ee5588 75%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(left,  #ec8544 25%,#00c8e8 25%,#00c8e8 50%,#33cc77 50%,#33cc77 75%,#ee5588 75%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ec8544', endColorstr='#ee5588',GradientType=1 ); /* IE6-9 */
margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
width:20px;
height:5px;
}