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philinux
September 7th, 2010, 12:08 PM
This is interesting. Is this really html5.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/09/googles-mysterious-doodle.html

scouser73
September 7th, 2010, 12:19 PM
I've just changed my homepage from Google.co.uk because of that doodle, which slowed my browser down, Firefox 4 [Beta 4].

I had the same problem the other day with their Bucky Ball doodle, again causing CPU hog.

GeneralZod
September 7th, 2010, 12:23 PM
Is this really html5.


The comments make a pretty good case that, like their "Pacman" game earlier this year, it's just Javascript+CSS, and makes use of no HTML5-specific features.

Naiki Muliaina
September 7th, 2010, 12:52 PM
google pacman for a day was cool :) using stock lucid 64 and 32 bit firefox and it works fine here

philinux
September 7th, 2010, 05:53 PM
I've just changed my homepage from Google.co.uk because of that doodle, which slowed my browser down, Firefox 4 [Beta 4].

I had the same problem the other day with their Bucky Ball doodle, again causing CPU hog.

I gets both my cores to 60% each.

ssam
September 7th, 2010, 07:36 PM
kind of like the birds on the splash page of
http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

Phrea
September 7th, 2010, 08:54 PM
Doesn't work for me. :(
Both on Opera [10.61] and Fx [3.6.8].

benerivo
September 7th, 2010, 09:03 PM
It is an impressive showcase, and my chromium 7.0.519.0 doesn't stretch my cpu (the most i can get it up to is 33% as reported by 'top').

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQhG5cbv44

pwnst*r
September 7th, 2010, 09:36 PM
But what does it mean?

The Daily Telegraph says that Google is remaining tight-lipped on the issue.

What issue exactly?

Merk42
September 7th, 2010, 11:41 PM
I noticed it looks slightly different in IE8, the circles don't scale.

So perhaps HTML5 (or CSS3) is being used for that?

Dustin2128
September 8th, 2010, 01:40 AM
its CSS3. Awesome huh?

Simian Man
September 8th, 2010, 01:48 AM
I wonder if it's a subtle high-intensity javascript benchmark to prod people to Google Chrome.

Dustin2128
September 8th, 2010, 01:53 AM
I wonder if it's a subtle high-intensity javascript benchmark to prod people to Google Chrome.
meh, works just fine in firefox.

//I swapped back from chrome...

Queue29
September 8th, 2010, 05:03 AM
The only HTML in this thing is the doctype. Everything else is just javascript.

Phrea
September 8th, 2010, 05:15 AM
Why can't I see it? :(

Ubuntu Opera/Fx

Merk42
September 8th, 2010, 05:38 AM
Why can't I see it? :(

Ubuntu Opera/Fx

Because it was removed.

These special Google things only last for 24hrs

whiskeylover
September 8th, 2010, 03:02 PM
Now its a gray colorless image. It makes me sad : (

Simian Man
September 8th, 2010, 03:10 PM
Now its a gray colorless image. It makes me sad : (

Actually now it lights up each letter as you type with a cursor. Still not as fun as the balls though.

renkinjutsu
September 8th, 2010, 03:31 PM
What issue exactly?

The issue being what the logo means, I'm assuming.

Colonel Kilkenny
September 8th, 2010, 03:49 PM
Because it was removed.

These special Google things only last for 24hrs

Opera users didn't see it while it was still on because Google is Google. They preach about open web and how everyone should follow standards while at the same time they're making stuff that actively blocks certain browsers. Like in this case they sniffed Opera.

alexan
September 8th, 2010, 05:15 PM
Google "launchday" should be in "September 15" (ref wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_search): launch date)

maybe 7th september is a special date of that year ('97)?
The "real" day when main google server were set up?


Anyway: the doodle did work with opera if masked as firefox... so Google isn't that fairer as it would look as.


Edit: found, sorry... looks like its all about money:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0907

Dragynn
September 8th, 2010, 07:31 PM
Opera users didn't see it while it was still on because Google is Google. They preach about open web and how everyone should follow standards while at the same time they're making stuff that actively blocks certain browsers. Like in this case they sniffed Opera.

You know, I hate to tin-foil-hat it, but I believe you hit the nail on the head... social-engineering, and it worked on me, the flying balls slowed my Firefox down so bad I had to check my system, saw it was running my CPU up to close to 100%, and thought Firefox must be at fault, that's what drove me to digging for other browsers and led me to Iron, and so of course Iron being a Chromium derivative, it seemed like it worked a lot better at wrangling the flying balls without over-tasking my CPU.

Evil stuff.....Google is really pushing it lately....