Chrome Web Store is Webapp Central In Your Browser [Webapps]

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Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Chrome Web Store is Webapp Central In Your Browser [Webapps]

Submitted by admin on May 19, 2010 – 11:20 amNo Comment

There’s a new Chrome tag page (like the one there now that shows bookmarks) that you can “install” webapps onto your browser. Essentially, it’s a shortcut center to the webapps you use. Then, there’s the web store.

Clicking the web store icon will give you a web store where you can buy and install webapps. Then it gets added to your tag page for easy access. One example: Plants vs. Zombies.

Another: Lego Star Wars. This runs in the browser with a plugin using native code, not with Javascript.

Google also has magazines in their web store. First a demo by Sports Illustrated. (I think this is the wrong audience for sports talk.) How does it translate? It looks like a slideshow of the magazine’s pages, where you can click to advance. It’s free. And will have video and news and scores.

They even have “enriched” ads, which looks pretty decent. For example, an ad for a camera will show various lenses that you can swap into a camera to see how it affects how you shoot a photo, updated live. Then if you want to buy the camera, it gives you a Google Map of local places to buy.

So what can you get if you build on the Chrome web store? 70 million+ active users. You also get this web store on Chrome OS as well as Chrome in the three OSes.