Google's Amazing Browser Experiments

Barence writes "On the day that Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 8, Google has unveiled a new site that showcases the Javascript performance of its Chrome browser. Called Chrome Experiments, the site includes 19 extraordinary animated games and widgets that push the browser to its limits. One experiment, called Browser Ball allows you to 'throw' a bouncing ball from one browser window to the next. Google Gravity, on the other hand, collapses the normal Google homepage into a pile at the bottom of the screen. However, you can still enter search terms into the box and watch the results drop from the top of the browser window."

Comments

Re:Obvious user question

[dotancohen]

Why does this frecking site do not work in ie6...

Are you kidding? TFA doesn't even work in Firefox 3! Try clicking on one of the thumbnail images. It just takes you right to the top of the page. Nice job, writing an article critical of IE in IE-only code.

so nothing that's actually useful, then?

[petes_PoV]

just some superficial eye-candy to suck the processor cycles away from useful work

Re:Works in Safari too

[josath]

Uhh...real-time chroma-key replacement in flash has been possible since Flash 8 introduced color replacement functions three and a half years ago.

You just load up a video (or any content really), and apply a bitmap filter to it that basically says something like "replace any pixels from 0x00DD00 to 0x22FF22 with an alpha=0 pixel". (I think the actual API used is BitmapData.threshold())

I guess it's nice to see Firefox catching up to what Flash could do in 2005 :)