Access by Design » google http://access-bydesign.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Google’s logo demonstrates the latest coding http://access-bydesign.com/googles-logo-demonstrates-the-latest-coding/ http://access-bydesign.com/googles-logo-demonstrates-the-latest-coding/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:58:16 +0000 abdadmin http://access-bydesign.com/abd/?p=3229 The following article from the Guardian has an interesting take on where Google thinks the web is heading:
For its 12th birthday, the Google logo shows off what programmers can do with a few lines of code, in the latest of its long line of attention-getting “doodles”. The logo on Google’s homepage is made out of a set of bouncing “balls” that swirl around the page in modern browsers such as its own Chrome, Firefox, Apple’s Safari and some versions of Opera – but not in older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (though the most recent version, IE8, does)…
…Google’s doodle today looks ahead to the next version of the computer code that delineates the web. The doodle actually consists of lots of pieces of a web page, each using a modern form of web coding called CSS3 – “Cascading Style Sheet” elements. Each circle is actually an element called a “div” – an element into which the page is divided – which contains an instruction in its associated piece of CSS3 to make it circular rather than square or rectangular. The code also contains instructions so that if the cursor is moved near to any of the “bubbles”, they try to move away…
…The aim of the logo seems to be to draw attention to the importance of CSS3, an emerging standard which is being developed as the next version of the web language HTML, called HTML5, is being ratified by the World Wide Web Consortium,
Google has been eager to push HTML5 and CSS3, and its Chrome browser, because it offers many more possibilities in the design of web pages, which could be more interactive with less effort by designers. It has produced HTML5 versions of its video site YouTube so that they will be more mobile-friendly for people whose smartphones cannot cope with Adobe Flash content, usually used for video content on desktop computers.
HTML5 and CSS3 have the capability to do many of the functions presently carried out by Adobe Flash, which has led Steve Jobs at Apple to champion HTML5 as an open standard rather than a proprietary one owned and controlled by Adobe; that in turn has led to angry divisions in the technology world over the benefits of Flash…
…The doodle wasn’t loved by all. Louise Bolotin commented on Twitter: “I hate today’s Google doodle. Those balls are a nightmare for those with visual problems” – a point not always borne in mind when designing sites which have a lot of what you might call moving parts.
Browsershots.org has screenshots of the site taken today on a wide range of browsers – indicating which ones do and do not display the “bubbles”.

Source article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/07/google-logo-bouncy-birthday

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