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The product release landing page is here: http://www.google.com/nexus/ http://www.google.com/nexus/ Quite a simple/beautiful HTML5 design, IMO.

by andreyf 16y ago

peng 16y ago
The design is quite amateurish. The curvature of the header crowds out the (overly-busy) logo and makes me gag. The drop shadow for it cuts off abruptly at the sides, instead of fading into white. The 'S' for Nexus S is flimsy and generic. In fact, all the icons on the site are pretty ugly. The site does have simplicity going for it. Apple just seems to execute so much better in this area.
- s3graham 16y ago
  That's funny, my first thought was that it looked exactly like an Apple product page, almost embarrassingly so.
brown9-2 16y ago
This is a giant tangent but - what is HTML5 about this site?
- cryptoz 16y ago
  Well for one, the whole thing is HTML5 given that the page's DOCTYPE is <!doctype html> I don't have time to look deeper right now.
  - jerhinesmith 16y ago
    It looks like that's about it (other than a few "data-*" attributes thrown in). Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing here that couldn't have been done in HTML 4. HTML 5 is great and all, but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary.
    - axod 16y ago
      > "but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary." I think it's about a year late for that.
  - nostrademons 16y ago
    So is the search results page, but the number of actual HTML5 features used on the SRP can be counted on one hand.
    - MiguelHudnandez 16y ago
      If you count in binary, you can count to 31 on one hand.
      - metageek 16y ago
        I taught myself to do that when I was about 13, and playing second flute. Lots of really long rests, and I kept getting distracted and losing count. One hand wasn't enough, though (some of these rests were over 100 measures), so I practiced counting on both hands, though. I didn't have any rests over 1023 measures.
- cdr 16y ago
  I'm guessing "not flash" - on most sites a few years ago (and probably still today) a product page like that would've definitely been flash.
- sgentle 16y ago
  CSS transitions. Webfonts. Doctype. [Edit: data attributes]
gizmomagico 16y ago
Did it look familiar? http://bradwallen.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s/ http://bradwallen.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s/

The product release landing page is here: http://www.google.com/nexus/ http://www.google.com/nexus/ Quite a simple/beautiful HTML5 design, IMO.

by andreyf 16y ago

The product release landing page is here: http://www.google.com/nexus/ http://www.google.com/nexus/ Quite a simple/beautiful HTML5 design, IMO.

peng 16y ago

The design is quite amateurish. The curvature of the header crowds out the (overly-busy) logo and makes me gag. The drop shadow for it cuts off abruptly at the sides, instead of fading into white. The 'S' for Nexus S is flimsy and generic. In fact, all the icons on the site are pretty ugly. The site does have simplicity going for it. Apple just seems to execute so much better in this area.

s3graham 16y ago
That's funny, my first thought was that it looked exactly like an Apple product page, almost embarrassingly so.

brown9-2 16y ago

This is a giant tangent but - what is HTML5 about this site?

cryptoz 16y ago
Well for one, the whole thing is HTML5 given that the page's DOCTYPE is <!doctype html> I don't have time to look deeper right now.
- jerhinesmith 16y ago
  It looks like that's about it (other than a few "data-*" attributes thrown in). Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing here that couldn't have been done in HTML 4. HTML 5 is great and all, but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary.
  - axod 16y ago
    > "but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary." I think it's about a year late for that.
- nostrademons 16y ago
  So is the search results page, but the number of actual HTML5 features used on the SRP can be counted on one hand.
  - MiguelHudnandez 16y ago
    If you count in binary, you can count to 31 on one hand.
    - metageek 16y ago
      I taught myself to do that when I was about 13, and playing second flute. Lots of really long rests, and I kept getting distracted and losing count. One hand wasn't enough, though (some of these rests were over 100 measures), so I practiced counting on both hands, though. I didn't have any rests over 1023 measures.
cdr 16y ago
I'm guessing "not flash" - on most sites a few years ago (and probably still today) a product page like that would've definitely been flash.
sgentle 16y ago
CSS transitions. Webfonts. Doctype. [Edit: data attributes]

gizmomagico 16y ago

Did it look familiar? http://bradwallen.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s/ http://bradwallen.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s/