Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Animated Google

Google changes the logo on their frontpage from time to time.  Most of the time, they just work the Google logo into an image that relates to something happening at the moment, like the football-related logos that were up throughout June. 

The most famous is very likely the Pacman tribute they posted a little while ago.  (Best of all, it's fully playable!)

Responsible for a global drop in productivity













Today, their logo is a bunch of small, colorful circles making up the letters in "Google."  If you move your cursor over them, they zip around the window, zooming in and out until they return to their starting positions. 

 
 Google's animated homepage















This looks just like a lot of pages that web designers have made to show off the power of HTML5, the next revision of HTML that would incorporate a lot of the things, like animation, that designers currently use Flash for.  They might just be showing off.  But they might be trying to make a whole lot of people sit up and notice what HTML5 can do.