ミン･グホン･マニュファクチャリング

Laurel Schwulst: Why did you make Mysterious Fruit? Or how did it come to be?
Min Guhong: As I said the other time you interviewed me, I like fruits. They’re delicious, healthy, and also good looking. When traveling in other countries, I like eating fruits I’ve never seen before. I like to imagine their flavor before visiting and tasting. It was not easy to imagine their flavor. But by surfing the web, I can get a little closer.

L: Wow, reminds me of that documentary “Fruit Hunters” about rare fruits and the people who chase them. Can you tell me about your favorite lines of code from this project?
M: To make Mysterious Fruit, I used three basic tools: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My favorite lines are in the HTML… It’s fun to think about which HTML elements to use. This part shows the four pieces of Apple Emoji fruits. As you can see, I used

tag instead of
tag or
tag because it’s a list, and there’s no clear order in it. Since I like both literature and computers, sometimes such a list looks like a mysterious poem.

L: I noticed you included tomato in your JavaScript (line 18). Is a tomato really a fruit?
M: Good question. Some people say tomato is a fruit, others say it is not. Some people say both. Whatever the truth is, when I believe that tomato is fruit, it becomes a fruit for me. Can the web be fruitful? Can the web make us happy? The answer is the same. I believe that the important thing is to believe.

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