At the end of August we reported to you about the future of Chrome (the browser, not the reflective plating) and we talked about how future Chrome builds would actually utilise more of your computers processing power to enable a richer online experience.
Well Google have recently released some WebGL demos to actually show what is possible with this new power. These demos will require you to run the full ‘canary’ build of Chrome (it’s an untested, frequently updated version of Chrome that can be unstable but is first to receive upcoming features).
The Chromium blog has actually benchmarked this new Chrome technology on the Microsoft IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive demos that were recently released and found up to 60x improvements in speed over the older Chrome version 6 builds.
Here is a video of one Google’s WebGL demos:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pM9LBcKxK4[/youtube]
More information can be found on the Chromium Blog.
Oi, You Said There Was A Chrome Tip?
Indeed I did – this tip comes from a post I spotted on the Google Chrome blog….
Ever had to post something from a web page to an online form and have it annoyingly also copy the formatting? Infuriating isn’t it?
You then have to perform what I’ve always liked to refer to as the ‘notepad dance’ – open notepad, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, and then re-paste back into your web form (I swear I could do that in my sleep). You’ve basically used notepad as a ‘formatting scrub’ (or if you prefer – ‘HTML colander’).
Well it seems that the folks over at Google have also found this an issue, so for all you Chrome users they have added a ‘paste as plain text’ shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + V
(It’s Command + Shift + Option + V for you Jobsian lot 
)
Read the full post on the Google Chrome Blog.
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