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Google Has Balls?!
Why is the Google homepage "doodle" or logo breaking up into a bunch of bouncing balls that seem to follow your mouse movement?
Today is the search engine giant's 12th birthday, and while they haven't officially linked the playful take on the logo with the anniversary, they are taking an opportunity "to showcase JavaScript and HTML5 technologies," notes the HuffPo.
The Guardian gets into the tech-specs:
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.
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Not seeing the balls move and bob in your browser? Time to get with the times, maybe? The doodle is viewable in "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)."
So do you like today's doodle? Buzz online indicates most like it, but some say it's unfriendly to anyone with visual problems.
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