News - Mystery Google doodle appears

[HEXUS]

Is it a birthday doodle, web browser experiment or PR stunt?

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[Grey M@a]

I must be on the worst DNS in the world. Everyone keeps linking me to google to see this "doodle" but all I see is the plain and simple Google logo.

[Singh400]

It only works properly in Chrome and Firefox. Sort of works in IE8. Doesn't work at all in IE7 or below.

[Grey M@a]

It only works properly in Chrome and Firefox. Sort of works in IE8. Doesn't work at all in IE7 or below.

Using chrome and I still only see the plain google logo that normally don's their pages.

[Singh400]

Using chrome and I still only see the plain google logo that normally don's their pages.

It isn't activated on google.com try google.co.uk

[Grey M@a]

It isn't activated on google.com try google.co.uk

hehe done that too

Might be easier if I list what I haven't tried

[Singh400]

hehe done that too

Might be easier if I list what I haven't tried

Then in that case your internet must suck

[Grey M@a]

Then in that case your internet must suck

Most likely, will try it out later on at home if I remember to

[scaryjim]

Interesting - 25% on Chrome, 40% on IE8 (although it doesn't render properly), and almost 50% on Firefox! All this on a 2GHz mobile Core 2 Duo. Be interested to know how it's implemented to give such different CPU utilisation in different browsers... which bit of the renderer is causing the difference...

[mikerr]

A quote from somone on twitter about this:

It uses more CPU than playing a youtube flash video... that's progress for you

BTW it's not really HTML5 - they aren't using a HTML5 canvas object,
just plain old javascript to move divs around.

[stevie lee]

anyone else keep thinking of the lionhead logo on the 'black & white' game introduction? that was pretty much the same, except with more balls.
that was 9 years ago and it ran more smoothly, must mean the current coders at google are very sloppy, or don't care enough to do it right.

[mikerr]

Lol - someone's re-done it using HTML5 canvas:

http://rawkes.com/experiments/google...-balls-canvas/

[this_is_gav]

Interesting - 25% on Chrome, 40% on IE8 (although it doesn't render properly), and almost 50% on Firefox! All this on a 2GHz mobile Core 2 Duo. Be interested to know how it's implemented to give such different CPU utilisation in different browsers... which bit of the renderer is causing the difference...

I'm only getting ~4% in Firefox and ~6% in IE8, however mad I go.

The balls are all small and the same size in IE8 though. :\

[Singh400]

Averaging around 10%~ here in Chrome. But who cares - it sooooooooooooo cool!