In case some of you haven't been paying attention, HTML5 is crazy-powerful. An instance of what can be done with it was displayed on the iPhone when Apple protested Google putting GTalk on the phone... so Google just wrote an HTML5 instance of the application and ran it through the iPhone browser.

What's even more impressive than that? WebGL and this example of Quake II running IN A BROWSER.

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-ma-no-plugin.html

To quote Jay from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, "I think I just filled the cup."

I was wondering about that. I am highly impressed with what it can do. It's amazing what people can come up with when Apple decides not to support flash...

While I haven't developed for it personally yet, I'm really not a fan of HTML 5 from what I know about it.

A lot of what it seems to do is include the functionality of successful plugins into HTML by default while completely ignoring the core problems web-developers face on a daily basis; namely that HTML is stateless and a poor tool to develop most applications that are being built using it.

Doesn't Quake III already run in a browser? Or is this some special new method that doesn't require 3D acceleration?

Welcome to the past you mean ? lots of games run on browsers

oh wait this is april fools? =s

Anything that helps bring down flash in my opinion is great. (stupid adobe)
Thank god for noscript addon in firefox :)

In the meantime, looking for a fantastic browser game, check out :

Quake Live at quakelive.com
Fallen Empire: Legions on instantaction.com (like tribes, site will be back online soon)
Bullseye at interstellarmarines.com

plenty of others too just google and you'll find a plethora of quality games all in the browser :)

also try battlefield heroes...

HTML5 is not anything new really, web sites just need to catch on more, the flexibility has never been a question with 5, we just need more people working with it in clever ways.

I came here to post exactly that.

HTML5 isn't perfect but it is better than proprietary pluigins like Silverlight or Flash.