Ten things you didn’t expect from HTML / Javascript

Fifteen years ago, it was difficult to imagine that someday HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript would become the main technologies for accessing information and would replace entire classes of desktop applications. For example, here are ten examples of what was difficult to expect from web technologies in 2010, but they do.

1. Interactive rendering of tissue physics


2. Recognize objects in live video
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3. Watch YouTube videos without flash



4. Co-editing source code in the development environment through a browser



5. Strange interactive things like these.



6. Animation of 3D landscapes



7. Read books in a mobile browser , even disconnecting from the Internet



8. Play Wolfenstein 3D



9. Play MarioKart



10. Rendering Flash Files with Javascript / SVG