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Here is a bloody fantastic tool for laying out HTML with CSS and more:

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/det...Y_56JBAw/large
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/boxes-and-text/
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFiK21VgNso

Extremely impressive and very well done.

This is a very powerful tool for developers, and is a testament to the robustness of the web platform. This rivals (if not exceeds) downloadable tools that I've seen.

HTML5 brings with it a lot of cool features, one of which is the ability to work with the local filesystem to read/write designated files:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GF1CKns1bB...00/image00.jpg
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/...e-browser.html

This post talks about Chrome's HTML5 API for file working with local files.

It seems easy to integrate and should allow for more powerful web applications!

Microsoft begins smear campaign over WebGL citing insecurity of shader code:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....ebglattack.jpg
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/17/m...urity-concerns

I can't help but think that this is motivated by the fact that OpenGL competes with their DirectX.

This is why MS is evil. They often directly sabotage progress with FUD for technologies that they do not control. Now, WebGL does leave a system vulnerable to screen freezes on some OSs as MS points out, but there are solutions to these problems through code verification, and updated drivers.

Here is the official khronos position on WebGL security:
http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/webgl-security

Quote:

WebGL pays strong attention to security - just as any web technology should. With growing recognition of WebGL in the press, we thought we would summarize Khronos' work and stance on this important topic.

1. Khronos agrees that security is a vitally important consideration for any web standard. WebGL was architected with security in mind from the ground up.
2. All WebGL implementations already necessarily contain safeguards which prevent out-of-range memory accesses during rendering operations and access of uninitialized memory; please see here and here. These safeguards are tested by the WebGL conformance suite.
3. Defense against denial of service attacks is still evolving in WebGL implementations. Khronos has specified an extension to OpenGL and OpenGL ES, GL_ARB_robustness, designed to prevent denial of service and out-of-range memory access attacks from WebGL content, preventing any possibility of using WebGL to execute malware on a user's machine.
4. GL_ARB_robustness has already been deployed by some GPU vendors and Khronos expects it to be deployed rapidly by others.
Browsers can check for the presence of this extension before enabling WebGL content. This is likely to become the deployment mode for WebGL in the near future.
5. The ability to incorporate cross-domain images into WebGL scenes provides great utility to developers, but the WebGL working group is considering requiring Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) opt-in or other mechanisms to prevent possible future abuse of this capability.
6. The WebGL working group has been working closely with the GPU vendors in the Khronos group to make accelerated WebGL implementations secure and WebGL is influencing GPUs to provide even more flexible security options in the future.
7. There are no known WebGL exploits and Khronos will continue to place close attention to technical and ecosystem opportunities to ensure WebGL is a secure technology that can be used with confidence.

I look forward to IE continuing to lose user confidence and marketshare.

ChromeOS gets another solid title! Go into the chrome web store if you have Google Chrome and play Gun Bros, the acclaimed mobile shooter:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jk...s400-h275-e365
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/id...s400-h275-e365
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/2h...s400-h275-e365
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...hc=hp&hcp=new#

There is certainly no doubt that mobile apps are becoming increasingly sophisticated!

It is a 3D game, so you need WebGL working on your system.

I forsee many more games hitting the web platform! Amazing!

Here's another great demo that shows how impressive WebGL is and where it could possible go.

http://www.everyday3d.com/j3d/thumbs/009_lightmap.jpg
http://www.everyday3d.com/j3d/demo/008_Lightmap.html

This demonstration is a single room with lightmaps that allows an individual to walk around it.

It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to see that this could easily become a full fledged first-person-shooter like Quake3 without requiring an explicit app install.

Amazing. It's only a matter of time before we start seeing a very high caliber of applications start to leak onto the web.

This is insanity.

This is what should be called WebOS.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ysss (Post 1065208)

This is insanity.

This is what should be called WebOS.

Indeed! The best part about it is that these titles are open to anyone that has a web browser, chrome or otherwise -- the web store just makes it convenient to discover this content. This is a wonderfully powerful unifying platform, and I can see this being the future platform for everything from mobile phones and tablets to laptop computers and kiosks.

I personally love the idea of chromebooks, as they remove the complexity of traditional OSs while increasing security. There are now a handful of very solid apps and games available, and this is only the beginning. Soon most people will be able to easily and contently live in the 'cloud.'

I hope to see many more competitors in this space. OSS companies like Mozilla are already making moves and its only a matter of time before companies like Apple and HP join the ranks of Samsung and Acer in this space with their own unique offerings (eg. content delivery, specialized app stores, etc).

As it stands, the quality app selection is still quite small, but it's only been a few months and the rate of growth is impressive. I'm looking forward to the day when I can ditch my heavy laptop for an all-day chromebook/webbook/whateverbook for productivity, and have a personal server at home for tasks and media I would prefer keeping close to my chest.

Speaking of close to chest, here is a service called RoundCube that provides a LAMP web mail client that you can install on your own system:
http://roundcube.net/images/homescreen.jpg
http://roundcube.net/

I would like to see *more* services like this, and I would prefer to see them in something a little less rickety and hard to configure like LAMP. I would rather see a single Java/C binary, with a single GUI to configure all of the various servers. In this way they would be far more plug-and-play without the nuances of configuring and connecting various servers.

Personally, I would love an web SSH client (already exists), an IDE, and a SIP client.

Here's another ok title in the web store: Zombie Drop!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vy...s400-h275-e365
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...earch&hcp=main

The goal is to get the zombie on the pad for electrocution.

The game is a casual game, and is ok to kill some time, but certainly not as fun as angry birds or gun bros.

Thanks CC, will be hooking up ChromeOS on my future laptop.

Is it possible to run all these applications on another OS through Chrome browser?