Now this is interesting. Smokescreen, written by Chris Smoak, is a “Flash player written in JavaScript” that takes Flash objects and converts them to JavaScript in real time.
I know Microsoft has only recently broken ground on Internet Explorer 9, but why would you ever release a graph in which you were the admitted worst at a task?
On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realise that every one of them actually works.
Google Chromium 4.0, the pre-alpha version of Chrome, may still be buggy and crashy as all hell, but it’s also incredibly fast, according to benchmarks: 34 per cent faster than Safari, for one, and more than twice as fast as Firefox.
