A friend of mine put together this animation of the new HTML5 logo animated — with irony — in Flash. It got a lot of chuckles on Twitter so I thought I’d link to it here for good measure. (Anecdotally, it’s apparently crashed more than one user’s Web browser out there. Perfect.) See the animation here.
Thinking more about the logo itself, I’ve become increasingly perplexed about why the W3C and its designers, Ocupop, decided to make the “HTML” and the “5” two distinct elements, rather than joining them together. To date, the people behind this specification have gone through reasonably significant efforts to make it clear that the proper style for citing it is as a single unit, sans space. It’s “HTML5,” not “HTML 5,” right? Am I missing something? (I’ll admit, I’m not as fascinated by the narrative around these specifications as a lot of designers are.) Anyway, if that singularity is what they’re going for, it seems like an error in judgment to design a logo that doesn’t acknowledge it, that even suggests that the two elements can be broken apart.
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