Ten Things You Didn't Expect From HTML / Javascript

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

1. Interactive rendering of tissue physics


2. Real-time object recognition on video



3. Viewing YouTube videos without a flash



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



5. Strange interactive things like these



6. Animating 3D landscapes



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



8. Play Wolfenstein 3D



9. Play MarioKart



10. Render flash files using Javascript / SVG