title: Curved text over a circle without javascript
body: <p>I'm trying to make the flag of Brazil. So far I have this:
  CSS:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.flags {
    width: 700px;
    height: 375px;
    position: relative;
  }
  .flag-brazil {
    background-color: #00923F;
  }
  .flag-brazil .square {
    width: 38%;
    height: 65%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -19.5%;
    margin-top: -16.25%;
    background: #F8C300;
    transform: rotate(-33deg) skewX(25deg);
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe {
    width: 30%;
    height: 55.8%;
    background: #28166F;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-top: -13.95%;
    margin-left: -15%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .text {
    font-family: "Arial";
    font-size: 1em;
    background: white;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #169B4F;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 0 5%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 20%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span {
    display: inline-block;
    position: absolute;
    color: white;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span:before {
    content: "\2605";
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    color: white;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.big {
    width: 1.1em;
    font-size: 12px;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.medium {
    width: 0.7em;
    font-size: 9px;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.small {
    width: 0.4em;
    font-size: 6px;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_1 {
    bottom: 10%;
    left: 25%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_2 {
    bottom: 15%;
    left: 51%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_3 {
    bottom: 32%;
    left: 32%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_4 {
    bottom: 17%;
    left: 17%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_5 {
    bottom: 22%;
    left: 34%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_5 {
    bottom: 33%;
    left: 69%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_6 {
    bottom: 23%;
    left: 49%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_7 {
    bottom: 18%;
    left: 71%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_8 {
    bottom: 28%;
    left: 71%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_9 {
    bottom: 26%;
    left: 59%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_10 {
    bottom: 39%;
    left: 83%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_11 {
    bottom: 10%;
    left: 61%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_12 {
    bottom: 5%;
    left: 43%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_13 {
    bottom: 7%;
    left: 36%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_14 {
    bottom: 17%;
    left: 33%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_15 {
    bottom: 29%;
    left: 13%;
  }
  .flag-brazil .globe .stars &gt; span.star_16 {
    bottom: 64%;
    left: 64%;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;div class="flags flag-brazil"&gt;
    &lt;div class="square"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class="globe"&gt;
      &lt;div class="stars"&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_1"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_2"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_3"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_4"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_5"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="small star_6"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="small star_7"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="small star_8"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_9"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_10"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_11"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="small star_12"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="medium star_13"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_14"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_15"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="big star_16"&gt;☆&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;div class="text"&gt;
          &lt;span class="char1"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char2"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char3"&gt;d&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char4"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char5"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char6"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char7"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char8"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char9"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char10"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char11"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char12"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char13"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char14"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char15"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char16"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="char17"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>You can google how their flags looks. I want the curve the text over the <code>.globe</code>. So far I've tried this:
  <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/FakeHeal/wxedxmnd/10/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/FakeHeal/wxedxmnd/10/</a></p>
  
  <p><em>PS: I know that the stars are not properly aligned and less than the actual number</em></p>