Doing it with style
Just to show how far CSS has come in the last 9 years.
In 2005 I produced this version - FLAG, for which the code was an outer div with forty three nested divs.
In 2007 I produced an updated version - FLAG, for which the code was reduced to an outer div with eleven nested divs.
Now in 2014 this version uses an outer div with just one nested div.
5th April 2014
After a little lateral thinking - updated to use just one <div> <div class="flag"></div>
.. and finally without using ::before and ::after pseudo elements.
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