Just when you’ve seen everything…

I was consuming my morning coffee, and going through my usual routine:

- drink coffee

- make notes on what I’m doing today on the AIR: Steampunk site

- drink more coffee (as once is never enough)

- review my throw away project made from the GLGE library (from glge.org naturally!) to figure out how to make a lovely scene with drifting fog.

- drink more coffee

… then I came across an article  that made me forget my coffee completely (as you might guess, that takes a lot… I like my coffee). Namely this (view link using Chrome or firefox):

http://www.andrew-hoyer.com/experiments/cloth

That … that is amazing.

I’m very used to Javascript / HTML / CSS being used to manipulate the page in many wild ways. I’ve spent many a year building Javascript based database engines, so I know it can do some fairly hairy stuff.

However, this opens up new worlds. It does make me wonder, at what point does the browser become the new operating system? Or is the browser the new GUI for the OS kernals and we’ve just not quite hit that tipping  point where they suddenly mash together? Or have we?

ahem … Google’s Chrome OS …

In that world, it would seem games would be scripted in the browser (iron-clas security packets wrapped around it of course), and from there  distributed into any platform that can run aforementioned browser… like a netbook, a PC, a Mac, a console, the ipad, the iphone, the droid, and the list rolls way way on.

I honestly don’t know. Seems that world might be creeping up on us.

Should be fun I think.

Now where did I put my coffee?