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I'm curious what HTML5 features are being used? Are they using <audio> or <video> tags? That seems like the most likely. Or <canvas>.

I've noticed "HTML5" is getting thrown around a lot lately. It's the new "AJAX".

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None, not even HTML 5 but XHTML 1.1. I was mistaken/too eager to see it.

I hope it'll be the new AJAX, like in my clients saying "I want that".

From the very limited view we have so far, they aren't specifically calling out for an audio or video tag in the CSS.

They are definitely using canvas though. Going through the inspector, the round audio buttons are made with canvas.

It seems to be the animated part of the button that is a canvas. The static part you see before starting the sound is a background picture on the div, created using inline image data in the css.

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