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The Mozilla Evangelism team is looking for the best Web demos we can find. We’re putting together a collection of these to show what today’s Web is truly capable of — from offline Web application support through text animation using canvas and more. If you have or know of a demo that really shines as an example of modern Web capabilities, please leave a comment and a link. Thanks!

Update: Bonus points for demos that show off the new content-related features of Firefox 3.

Interesting article from BusinessWeek about the “return” (not sure where it went) of Flash and the growing popularity of Web games: Flash is Back.

Who is Mozilla? You are Mozilla.

Every once in a while I stumble across some random bit of a web application that honestly causes me “surprise and delight”. Today was one of those days, and the thing in question is the shopping cart at the Panic.com Apparel store.

The concept is basic, simple, and brilliant — create a shelf at the bottom of the page to which the user can simply drag the items she wants. If she makes a mistake, simply drag the items off. When finished, there’s a nice obvious “Check out” button. It works extremely well, and they’ve gone so far as to add size bubbles to the items in your cart so it’s easy to check that you’ve selected the correct sizes. Very nicely done.

Here are some screenshots. First is the clear shelf:

This is dragging an item on to the shelf (you can’t see it, but my mouse pointer was over the little transparent t-shirt):

The last is dragging an item off the shelf — instead of just disappearing, it actually vanishes in a poof of smoke (exactly like the OSX dock, if you were wondering). Again, my mouse pointer was in the middle of the little poof of smoke there but my screencap cleared it:

Anyhow, kudos to the panic.com designers. I really like your shopping cart.

Lookin’ for a snazzy new icon for linking your web feeds? Look no further than FeedIcons.com. This industrious soul has taken the time to generate a whole raft of variants on the ubiquitous orange feed icon (size and background colour changes, primarily). Nice stuff.

Update: Note! I believe this icon was originally done by Stephen Horlander (according to the one person I asked who seemed to know). Can anyone verify this? Whoever designed it should get some public props for being awesome.

Update2: Steven Garrity has helpfully pointed to a weblog post by Kevin Gerich that discusses the origins of this icon.