Google Engineers Recreate Quake II In HTML5

While Apple's decision to exclude Flash technology from its iPad may have content creators fretting about the lack of designer-friendly HTML5 authoring tools, the company's ally-turned-rival, Google, has proven at least that HTML5 Web apps are capable of delivering computationally demanding graphics. In a blog post on Thursday -- one of the few that day from Google that wasn't an April Fool's joke -- developer programs engineer Chris Ramsdale revealed the existence of an HTML5 port of id Software's Quake II engine. It's the product of Google's 20% time policy, which allows Google engineers to spend 1/5 of their work hours on projects outside the scope of their formal job descriptions. more......