with Chrome Experiments, a site with the goal of visually showing off
its speedy JavaScript engine.Thom Holwerda at OSNews seemingly comes
away impressed with the site. He says experiments such as Amiga
Workbench Emulator, Browser Ball and Google Gravity provide
tangibility.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been
touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in
JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome
Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and
to encourage adoption of the browser.
Chrome Experiments is a cool new website rolled out by Google to
promote its browser Chrome (which is out with version 2.0 beta, by the
way) and to demonstrate the power and fun that can be had with the
awesomeness of JavaScript and the browser chrome.
Browser benchmark performance scores make for nice bar charts, but
they can be detached from real-world computing needs. Chrome
Experiments--which don't require Chrome but sometimes break without
it--are a collection of taxing applications written in JavaScript that
are designed to be more engaging.
Among the 19 examples so far available: beach balls bouncing from one
browser window to another, control-tab animations, fractal trees, and
3D image modeling.
Seems to me that this Chrome Experiments campaign is the most engaging
one of its kind to come out in a long while. From real-time
information visualization to graphics and sound rendering to games
(both the classics and ones with a browser-based twist), these demos
are just a delight to try out.
JavaScript is used for many mundane features on the Web, but it's also
the foundation of more sophisticated Web applications such as Google
Docs. Unsurprisingly, given Google's Web application ambitions, the
company wants to advance its maturity.
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