Yes you heard true! With using Jake2 background, Quake 2 is now working on your browser!

By their own words;

“In the port, we use WebGL, the Canvas API, HTML 5 <audio> elements, the local storage API, and WebSockets to demonstrate the possibilities of pure web applications in modern browsers such as Safari and Chrome.

The port is based on the Jake2 project, compiled to Javascript using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Jake 2 is a Java port of the original Quake II source code, which was open sourced by id software.“

A printable cheat sheet from veign.com, also you can see which html4 or html5 support the tag. You can download from here.

Google is the one of the first company tests html5 on their site. As you may know, they did a nice job on Youtube a few months ago by developing html5 version of the whole page (http://www.youtube.com/html5). So at this point, Google IO conferences are important for HTML5 future.

You will hear HTML5 news, tutorials, experimantel pages, websites, people from this website in a few days.. Keep tracking us..