13 Incredible New JavaScript Projects From Google Labs

This post will introduce you to an excellent new resource for advanced JavaScript demonstrations – Google Chrome Experiments. Most of the demonstrations you’ll find in this post should render with no problems in Chrome, Firefox and Safari 3. Before we start, I’m going to make no secrets about it…Google Chrome is my favorite web browser on the market at the moment for a number of reasons. First..it supports a true multi-threaded model so if one of my tabs happens to crash the rest of my browser won’t be affected..I can simply close that one tab and keep on browsing to my heart’s content – and second – it’s got V8..

That may sound like the name of an overpriced car engine, but it’s actually the name of Google’s advanced JavaScript engine. It was built to help the next generation of web applications perform even better and what better way to demonstrate this than by harnessing the power of the Canvas element.

Not since John Resig’s Processing.js have I been so fascinated in seeing how people could use this component to push the power of JavaScript into the realm of real-world Desktop applications – and there are plenty of good examples of this below. There are also some very intriguing examples of how developers have managed to take traditional algorithmic problems in computing and turn them into working JavaScript demonstrations – you simply have to check out the bouncing ball experiment and the even better 3D Canvas one.

Feel free to browse the examples below and comment us if you have a really cool new demo you’re thinking of contributing to the project. I would definitely love to hear of it’s awesomeness