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Lead Head:
Check this out:
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

It *works* in FireFox, but runs much better in Chrome - and probably Safari as well.

Aloone_Jonez:
It doesn't work in Opera, the music plays but not the film.

It's impressive though it bit jerky which is probably because I have an old computer but it might be faster in Chrome, although I've not tested it yet.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Lead Head on 31 August 2010, 09:06 ---Check this out:
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

It *works* in FireFox, but runs much better in Chrome - and probably Safari as well.

--- End quote ---
(Haven't ran the demo yet, will do once I'm using Chrome) edit: couldn't run the experiment on my computer using chromium, waited 5 minutes and was stuck on 73%.. just too slow.

One of the goals of Firefox 4 is to have the fastest Javascript interpreter (which, with V8 already there, would be an impressive feat, but the importance of which is bigger than ever). Take a look at the graphs here: http://arewefastyet.com/
You see Firefox 4 making steady gains on 2 different branches - neither branch is as fast as V8 but they're clearly heading in the right direction, and also both branches are complementary. Once JaegerMonkey (made the mistake of almost calling it Jaegermeister again..) is stable, it will be integrated and make the whole thing much faster. This will be an insane asset, especially because all browsers will have fast JS engines (I think this is true about IE, but not sure).

(this goes down well with my attitude of using Javascript to do everything, even out of curiosity started working on a JS video codec drawn using canvas (may release this out of curiosity too).. who really wants to use low-level languages with so much being pumped into making javascript faster? The programming language of the web is a very important one..) related: serverside-javascript has recently gained a tonne of momentum, http://nodejs.org/

hm_murdock:
Oh no. More ways to make fake software on the interwebs. Just what we need, CPU-muching browsers that give us a slower, less useful, less worthwhile computer experience!

All this stuff I see looks really great, but still nobody has sold on the why of it. Why is this better than real software running on a real computer as opposed to some HTML stuff in a browser? I can run Word '08 on my old G4, or OpenOffice on any computer around and it's perfectly quick, capable, has at least the features I need (and then about a trillion others I don't) but most of all it. Can. Save. To. My. Hard. Disk. I don't have to rely on Google or Oracle or some fly-by-night cloud storage provider who might get bought up and thus shut down.

The web sure has come far. Too bad the destination is a giant tar pit of fucking fail.

Refalm:
It's because updating software is a bitch. Especially on Windows, where even applications have to be updated manually.

A web-application and storage that is wholly on a self-owned server, instead of Google or Zoho, is a great idea because a lot of issues with security patches are gone. It's just updating a web application once, and then it's okay.

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