Google Doodle Bouncing Balls & HTML5

[NickFitz]

Not 100% convinced, but more interestingly:

'Larry and Sergey's HTML5 balls drained my resources'

Everyone seems to think it is HTML5, on an IT site you'd have thought someone would have checked how it worked...

That was about the Buckyball doodle from the weekend - it looks like the boring animated GIF is all that's left of it now:

[OwlHoot]

I hope Firefox v4 has finally implemented the full SVG spec.

Last time I tried displaying my SVG maps, about a year ago, Firefox (some v3 version) didn't support the "g" (group) element, which makes a nonsense of the whole thing, the graphical equivalent of a computer language which doesn't support functions/subroutines! It also wouldn't display dashed lines, as I recall, or allow text fonts to be specified.

[d000hg]

That was about the Buckyball doodle from the weekend - it looks like the boring animated GIF is all that's left of it now:

Darn, I assumed it was the same thing. Missed that one - was it HTML5 out of interest or fake-TML5?

[VectraMan]

I hope Firefox v4 has finally implemented the full SVG spec.

Last time I tried displaying my SVG maps, about a year ago, Firefox (some v3 version) didn't support the "g" (group) element, which makes a nonsense of the whole thing, the graphical equivalent of a computer language which doesn't support functions/subroutines! It also wouldn't display dashed lines, as I recall, or allow text fonts to be specified.

I was playing with some SVG with <g>s in it that worked okay in the latest (3.6.4) Firefox (and Chrome and IE9).

The BS meter is on overload with HTML5, as Nick's comment ("it's plain old HTML 4.01") shows. It annoys me that people keep going on about the canvas element as being the Flash replacement, but really SVG is a much closer match to what Flash does. And that's been around for donkeys years, though seemingly unloved by all.

[xoggoth]

Those of us who know Google is part of the Illuminati realise that it is probably hypnotising us in some mysterious way we do not yet understand. Next week they will use the trigger and all common men who are not among the initiated will get up and kill themselves.

PS Never heard of SVG, looks interesting. I would look into it but I'll be dead next week anyway.

[NickFitz]

I hope Firefox v4 has finally implemented the full SVG spec.

Last time I tried displaying my SVG maps, about a year ago, Firefox (some v3 version) didn't support the "g" (group) element, which makes a nonsense of the whole thing, the graphical equivalent of a computer language which doesn't support functions/subroutines! It also wouldn't display dashed lines, as I recall, or allow text fonts to be specified.

I was doing lots of work with SVG at ClientOrg last year - not just rendering, but interactive widgets with JavaScript. Things like <g> worked just fine. (MathML worked too.) I can't remember if we were applying fonts with SVG or by using namespaced CSS, but we definitely had fonts (labelling our interactive charts would have been a bit tricky otherwise ).

We were using the then-cutting-edge build, Shiretoko, as we were working on a desktop application that embedded Gecko; that version became Firefox 3.5.

There's an SVG support chart at the MDN: SVG in Firefox