For those that hadn't heard, some google developers have ported quake 2 into native html 5.
[youtube:2zbh6xwb]XhMN0wlITLk[/youtube:2zbh6xwb]
They use GWT / WebGL / WebSockets to do this & the end result is a plugin free 3d game port.
Why is this so impressive? Basically it means that html 5 is going to break all existing browsing paradigms.
Up to this point, delivering rich functionality to a browser has always been quite complicated and has spawned a bunch of technologies that bend javascript and css to do in a lot of cases things they weren't necessarily designed to do.
This Quake port is a demonstration that the html 5 spec will deliver rich user experiences far beyond anything we have seen to date.
Needless to say as an IT professional that builds enterprise web applications, this demo gives me more wood than the entire south western national park in Tasmania.
html 5 - coming to a browser near you soon!
[youtube:2zbh6xwb]XhMN0wlITLk[/youtube:2zbh6xwb]
They use GWT / WebGL / WebSockets to do this & the end result is a plugin free 3d game port.
Why is this so impressive? Basically it means that html 5 is going to break all existing browsing paradigms.
Up to this point, delivering rich functionality to a browser has always been quite complicated and has spawned a bunch of technologies that bend javascript and css to do in a lot of cases things they weren't necessarily designed to do.
This Quake port is a demonstration that the html 5 spec will deliver rich user experiences far beyond anything we have seen to date.
Needless to say as an IT professional that builds enterprise web applications, this demo gives me more wood than the entire south western national park in Tasmania.
html 5 - coming to a browser near you soon!