[WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme

2011-07-22 Thread grant_malcolm_bailey
Hello, Today's Google home page theme seems to be a very good example of progressive enhancement. The mobile graphic is non-interactive in IE7 but looks fine. In Chrome, however, the graphic swings about in response to mouse movements (as does its shadow, not present for IE7). Could anyone

RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2011-07-22 Thread Enid Bulman
UNOFFICIAL Interesting - I don't have access to Chrome at work - but in FireFox it moves slowly and gracefully and has a drop-shadow (missing in IE8) reflected below the search box - so they have taken some time to do some rather classy work Enid -Original Message- From:

RE: [WSG] Re-ask: z-index bug in webkit?

2011-07-22 Thread Birendra
Strange it's take me to the another site http://www.lotusseedsdesign.com/mt/; -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of tee Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:22 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Re-ask: z-index

RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme

2011-07-22 Thread Birendra
Hi Grant Bailey This is the html 5 technology, It's hard to study in the locally... but you can try for this... But my suggestion study the html 5 and the canvas property. There are lot of things you can do with the html 5. Best of luck Regards Birendra -Original Message- From:

RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Taylor
Looking at it in Chrome it's two canvas elements (one for the animation, one for the shadow) with a noscript fallback: canvas id=calder width=400 height=300 style=margin-left: -48px; z-index: 0; cursor: move; /canvas canvas id=calder_shadows width=400 height=300

RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme

2011-07-22 Thread grant_malcolm_bailey
Chris, Thanks for your response. Yes, some physics is involved behind the scenes I think ... Grant - Original Message - From: Chris Taylor chris.tay...@cubik.co.uk To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:17:47 +0800 (WST) Subject: RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme