Google logo celebrates search engine's 12th birthday and shows off programmers' skills with interactive 'bouncing balls'
Google logo: programmers used CSS3 to create the "bubbles" effect to celebrate its 12th birthday
For the ITS 12th birthday, Google has shown off what ITS programmers can do with a few lines of code, in the latest, investigation of its long line of Attention-getting "Doodles": creating the logo of ITS homepage is 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 - Not in vain older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (though the Most Recent version, IE8, does).
Google officially opened ITS doors - or Rather door - 12 years ago in Menlo Park California. As the company history explains:
"On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened ITS door in Menlo Park, California. The door Came with a remote control, as it was Attached to the garage of a friend Ken Sublette space to the new corporation's staff of-three. The office Offered monetize big Advantages, Including a washer and dryer and a hot tub. It also Life Style Provided a parking space for the first employee Hired by the new company: Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology.
"Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering search queries 10.000 EACH day. The press began Thurs take notice of the upstart website with the Relevant search results, and articles extolling Google appeared in USA TODAY and Le Monde. That December, PC Magazine named Google one, investigation of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was moving up in the world "
But looking back please Rather, 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 the CSS3 - Cascading Style Sheet "Elements. Each circle is Actually an element called the a "div" - an element into the wakes page is Divided - contains an instruction wakes up in the ITS Associated piece of CSS3 that make it circular or square Rather please RECTANGULAR. Also the code contains instructions so That if the cursor is moved near Thurs for months of the "bubbles" They try Thurs move away.
Programmers around the web Quickly reverse-engineered the code, and posted it online (http://www.wait-till-i.com/2010/09/07/google-goes-bubbly-interactive-logo-today-on- the-uk-homepage-plus-source /)
In the past Google Doodles's not have celebrated the Anniversaries of the Wizard of Oz and of Popeye, not Thurs mention Queen Elizabeth II.
The AIM of the logo Seems to Be Thurs Draw Attention to the Importance of CSS3, an emerging standard wakes is Being Developed as the next version of the web language of HTML, called the HTML5, Being is ratified by the World Wide Web Consortium,
Google has Been Eager Thurs push HTML5 and CSS3, and ITS Chrome browser, Because it offers many more Possibilities in the design of web pages, wakes Zapraszamy be more interactive with less effort by designers. It has Produced HTML5 versions, investigation of its video site YouTube so That They Will be more mobile-friendly for people whose smartphones Can not COPE with Adobe Flash content, usually Used for video content has desktop computers.
HTML5 and CSS3 not have the Capability to do one of the Many fiunctions Presently carried out by Adobe Flash, WCG has led Steve Jobs at Apple Thurs champion HTML5 as an open standard Rather than a proprietary one owned and controlled by Adobe; That in turn has led Thurs angry divisions in the technology world over the Benefits of Flash.
Much of the reaction to the new doodle was positive: Rather like the occasion "when it created a Fully functional copy of the arcade game Pac-Man (WCG is still functional, people found the bubbles not have an entertainment Rather Than an annoyance.
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 wakes not have a lot of what you Might call moving parts.
Browsershots.org has screenshots of the site Taken today is a wide range of browsers - Indicating Which ones do and do not notice the "bubbles".
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