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HTML5 – Showcase and Experiments (Apple and Google)

Apple released their HTML5 Showcase a month or so ago.  It was cool, but the showcase required Safari to view it (not sure if this is a technical limitation, or just marketing making the decision).

I just saw the Google equivalent, Chrome Experiments: Not your mother’s JavaScript … and it’s damn cool.  Most of these (if not all, I haven’t gone through them all yet) are NOT limited to Chrome.  If you can’t run it in your browser (and why NOT) – you can see videos of each of them.

Some of the featured experiments:

• Sketchpad – We’ve seen this before, showing off the ability to create vector graphics in HTML5 (we’ve linked to this before)
• Canopy – Impressive fractal zoomer implemented with HTML5
• Browser Ball – Some interesting animation of an element between windows.
• Wavy Scrollbars – physics simulation using browser scrollbars.
• Pong – Pong implemented through browser windows (annoying sound warning)
• Google Gravity – Physics applied to the Google homepage (demos very nicely physics as well as CSS rotations)
• Harmony – Sketching app
• Destructive Video – This is cool, blow apart a playing video (I’ve linked to this before) — notice how the video keeps playing
• Ball Pool – Another physics demo … rotations, animations, large numbers of objects.

Tags: Apple, ball pool, browser ball, canopy, Chrome, destructive video, Google, Google Gravity, harmony, HTML5, pong, Safari, Sketchpad, wavy scrollbars