Google run Quake 2 on HTML5

[HavocXphere]

To show off what is possible with HTML5 in the browser, some of the engineers on the Google Web Toolkit team created an HTML5 port of the classic first-person shooter game Quake II.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/google-html5-quake/

30fps on a laptop.

Another reason to kick flash to the curb.

 

[DJNgoma]

Another reason to kick flash to the curb.

On mobile phones... Maybe. On PC, the thing kicks HTML5 with GPU acceleration.

 

[HavocXphere]

On mobile phones... Maybe. On PC, the thing kicks HTML5 with GPU acceleration.

afaik this is too. It makes use of WebGL which is based on OpenGL ES 2.0, so it should also be accelerated.

 

[DJNgoma]

afaik this is too. It makes use of WebGL which is based on OpenGL ES 2.0, so it should also be accelerated.

Still slower than flash, Google has even including Flash Player 10.1 Beta in the latest developer version of Chrome.

 

[McGuywer]

Only saw this now. Awesome stuff!