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New Google doodle advocating CSS3

September 8, 2010 in News Roundup

Marking the company’s 12th birthday, Google’s homepage yesterday featured a ‘bouncing balls’ doodle, showing off their programmers’ skills and sending a message out to the online community.

Reacting to the hovering of the cursor, the doodle is said to consist of lots of pieces of a web page, each using CSS3, an emerging standard which the company has been eager to push along with HTML5.

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Google fuels flash debate with Pac-Man doodle

May 22, 2010 in News Roundup

google_pacmanGoogle’s first ever interactive doodle, marking the 30th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man game, is written entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript, the Guardian reports.

The search giant’s home page was turned into a fully playable game on Friday with the pizza-shaped Pac-Man making its way around a maze spelling out ‘Google’.

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