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Lost World’s Fairs

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Lost World’s Fairs show cases how damn awesome HTML5 is in the hands of a capable designer. Initially, the project came about when Microsoft asked the designers to showcase Internet Explorer 9’s support for WOFF.

Says Jason Santa Maria:

Today marks the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9. To celebrate the release, Nishant Kothary from the MIX Online team at Microsoft reached out to me to help showcase its support of WOFF.

Atlantis is the most clever of the trio, using page scrolling to the effect of traveling down, down, down to the ocean floor.

PJH Studios artwork, Portrait of a sun

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