{tech}.Ben Buckman.net

This is totally new to me: an Ajax.org demo of their Ajax Platform, with moving 3D graphs, mathematically derived animations, and other cool stuff previously possible only with Flash, in pure HTML-like code. 1-800-Magic comments that it hogs all his CPU in Firefox and IE; I'm running it in Chrome with no apparently change in CPU load at all. (A commenter notes the same with Safari, which also runs Webkit), and one of the slides notes, "Chrome is fastest canvas implementation." In case anyone wondered why Google got into the browser business, that's why: to push the envelope.

A snippet of code from one of the graphs:

<a:smartbinding id="sbZoomChart"> 
   <a:bindings> 
      <a:series 
         formula   = "abs(1.5*(t+=random()*0.1-0.05)+0.5*sin(v*0.1))" 
         length    = "64000" 
         select    = "series/text()" 
         delimiter = " " 
         split     = "," 
         css       = "#" /> 
   </a:bindings> 
</a:smartbinding> 

I know very little about this at the moment except that it's very cool, I'm going to read more about it and check out the code.