Google turns to Middle Earth and Hobbits to show off Chrome’s magic by Kevin C. Tofel.
From the post:
Google has a new Chrome Experiment out in the wild — or the wilds, if you prefer. The latest is a showcase for the newest web technologies packed into Chrome for mobile devices, although it works on traditional computers as well. And what better or richer world to explore on your mobile device is there then J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth?
Point your Chrome mobile browser to middle-earth.thehobbit.com to explore the Trollshaw Forrest, Rivendell and Dol Guldur with additional locations currently locked. Here’s a glimpse of what to expect:
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“It may not feel like it, but this cinematic part of the experience was built with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. North Kingdom used the Touch Events API to support multi-touch pinch-to-zoom and the Full Screen API to allow users to hide the URL address bar. It looks natural on any screen size thanks to media queries and feels low-latency because of hardware-accelerated CSS Transitions.”
(Note, I repaired the link to http://middle-earth.thehobbit.com in the post which as posted, simply returned you to the post.)
This project and others like it should have UI coders taking a hard look at browsers.
What are your requirements that can’t be satisfied by a browser interface? (Be sure you understand the notion of sunk costs before answering that question.)