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Google's Amazing Browser Experiments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yeah-its-that-kind-of-day dept.

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."

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  1. Works in Safari too by Wabin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of these work in Safari4, and some even on the iPhone. This kind of stuff, written entirely in HTML5 and javascript, is one of the things Apple is hoping will make the lack of flash on the iPhone a moot point.

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  2. Re:Obvious user question by nobodylocalhost · · Score: 5, Informative

    it is a "corporate policy" because most of the HR software works only in IE6, and the reason most of the HR software works only in IE6 is because the HR departments demand IE6 compatibility... get where this one is going?

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  3. Re:Obvious user question by mspohr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Portable Firefox works on my locked down WinXP corp PC.

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  4. DUPE by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was reported on yesterday: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/2128256

    Reader Al notes too that "Google has launched Chrome Experiments, a site where Javascript coders can upload projects that make use of Chrome's speed and processing abilities. The site already features a handful of cool 'experiments' including a balls that jump between browser windows, a gravitationally-challenged version of the Google homepage and a game that runs through nine different browsers. It's cool stuff alright, but some experts wonder whether browser security might be a more important thing to focus on."

    Here's my comment about real-time Chroma-Key replacement in Firefox.

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  5. Re:Hello Slashdot..? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Push your MS-branded horns back into your head -- IE8 isn't being released until noon.

    Maybe, just maybe, they're waiting to release when you can actually download the browser?