An interactive view of the teams that played in the World Cup finals since FIFA began the tournament in 1930.
I've aped robby macdonell's nhl html5 piece and repurposed it for the world cup. I learned a great deal about html5, css3, javascript, jquery, and world cup soccer doing this. Thanks again to robby macdonell's pioneering efforts and his graciousness in sharing his code.
You can ask me questions or discuss this on my blog at metaprinter.
World War 2 prevented the World Cup from being played.
Congratulations Spain!... now I have to update this thing!
This is also an exploration of several display technologies available in modern web browsers (canvas, font-embedding, css transitions, etc). I wanted to see how rich of a visualization I could create using nothing more than CSS and javascript.
You get the full experience. YAY!
You get 98% of it, but there's some css animation sizzle you're missing out on.
Sorry. At least IE9 looks like it'll be pretty decent?