Daily question: Can your browser do this?
Fri, Nov 14, 08
Exactly ten years ago the state of the art looked like this at Netscape.com:
Ten years later, what one can visually do in a browser just with CSS and JavaScript without using any plugins like Flash is pretty astounding. For example, Projective texturing here uses only the 2D canvas tag and JavaScript to achieve interactive distortion and rotation in 3D:
Reflection.js adds reflections to arbitrary images with controls over various attributes:
Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery, capable of generating graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side:
Not shabby for a browser that only a few years ago could barely render formatted text!
In 1998, did you think that in less than a decade the browser of that day could evolve into what it has become today?
