About 15 years ago, my uncle took Zef to the university at which he was studying at the time. He had something to show him. He sat him behind a computer in the computer room and started a program called "Netscape". He typed in an Internet address ending with .au. I saw my first website and it came all the way from the other side of the world. It looked like crap, loaded incredibly slow, but it was cool.

I could have never have guessed that HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript would once not become the main way to access information, but also replace a lot of desktop applications. The abilities of the new HTML5 and other web technologies like SVG never cease to amaze me.

Here are 10 things, in this post, I had not expected these open web technologies would be able to, but can in 2010: Interactively render physics of a cloth, Live motion tracking, Play YouTube videos without Flash, Collaboratively edit source code in a browser IDE, Do weird interactive stuff like this, Animate simple 3D landscapes, Read books in a mobile browser, Play Wolfenstein 3D/MarioKart, Render flash files using Javascript/SVG. Please go to the full post for details.

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About 14-15 years ago my uncle took me to the university at which he was studying at the time. He had something to show me. He sat me behind a computer in the computer room and started a program called "Netscape". He typed in an internet address ending with .au. I saw my first website and it came all the way from the other side of the world. It looked like crap, loaded incredibly slow, but it was cool.

I could have never have guessed that HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript would once not become the main way to access information, but also replace a lot of desktop applications. The abilities of the new HTML5 and other web technologies like SVG never cease to amaze me.

Here are 10 things I had not expected these open web technologies would be able to, but can in 2010:

1. Interactively render physics of a cloth
   
2. Live motion tracking
   
3. Play YouTube videos without Flash
   
4. Collaboratively edit source code in a browser IDE
   
5. Do weird interactive stuff like this
   
6. Animate simple 3D landscapes
   
7. Read books in a mobile browser, while disconnected from the internet
   
8. Play Wolfenstein 3D
   
9. Play MarioKart
   
10. Render flash files using Javascript/SVG
    

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