Google's Amazing Browser Experiments 234
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."
Works in Safari too (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Works in Safari too (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Obvious user question (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Obvious user question (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?
Re:Obvious user question (Score:3, Informative)
Problem is that not even the end users are the problem anymore it is the corporations which probably will use ie until 2100...
Anyway the good news is, that the market share of this dreck is dropping at the same rate as ie5.5 used to drop when ie6 came out so expect in about 6-8 months the significance of ie6 down to levels where you can really start to ignore it!
The downside is, that most of those now migrating will migrate to ie7 which is also aweful... but at least css positioning works somewhat better, and png works in most cases as expected but not all!
Re:Obvious user question (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Works in Safari too (Score:3, Informative)
DUPE (Score:5, Informative)
This was reported on yesterday: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/2128256 [slashdot.org]
Here's my comment [slashdot.org] about real-time Chroma-Key replacement in Firefox.
Re:Hello Slashdot..? (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?
Re:Obvious user question (Score:4, Informative)
Thumb drive.
Re:Works in Safari too (Score:4, Informative)
Yep. I guess most video sites will move swiftly to javascript-decoding and rendering their flvs and mp4s.
HTML 5 [wikipedia.org] has <audio> and <video> tags, the actual decoding and rendering is handled by the browser.
Re:Works in Safari too (Score:4, Informative)
we've been playing with that one on Safari and Chrome side-=by-side. Chrome's JS is significantly faster, but it does have a bug in that text (inside the google search bar) only appears if the bar is level. On Safari it appears when the bar is at an angle.
Performance: FF is acceptable, Safari is worse so some are ok, some are not, Couldn't be bothered to try it on IE.
Chrome performs like client desktops used to. I look forward to our new browser-based overlords.
Re:Works in Safari too (Score:3, Informative)
Not entirely. In Chrome you can still type in the form and click on the buttons and they actually submit the page giving you search results. When I tried it in Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows and Linux, I could not select the text box once it had fallen, nor did clicking the buttons do anything. If I select the text box before it falls I can keep typing, but hitting enter also does not submit the form.
Opera (Score:4, Informative)
And most of them work just fine in Opera 9.64, despite the scary warnings.
And the ones that don't, it seems to be because Opera deliberately disallows that sort of action (e.g. the pages knowing where they are on screen in relation to other pages).
Re:Hello Slashdot..? (Score:3, Informative)
It may be too little, but MSIE has one thing that will have practically everyone installing it ... mandated installation via windows update.
"Your browser [Firefox 3] is not the latest version of MSIE, were updating it in the background and setting IE8 as your default browser, to cancel this update please remove your HDD and smash with a hammer."