Today’s Google homepage includes a fully playable, audio-enabled game of Pac-Man. No plug-in in sight. Check out the source quickly - it’ll only last one day. I posted this too quickly. Turns out Flash is used here for sound, but more worryingly, the performance is quite awful on the iPhone. My own little web game for iPhone, Pie Guy, is written sloppily, but it benefits form hardware-accelerated performance thanks to CSS animations and transformations. Remember: manipulating an element’s “left” property via JavaScript, for instance, is much, much slower than setting the “translate” property.

Today’s Google homepage includes a fully playable, audio-enabled game of Pac-Man. No plug-in in sight. Check out the source quickly - it’ll only last one day.

I posted this too quickly. Turns out Flash is used here for sound, but more worryingly, the performance is quite awful on the iPhone. My own little web game for iPhone, Pie Guy, is written sloppily, but it benefits form hardware-accelerated performance thanks to CSS animations and transformations. Remember: manipulating an element’s “left” property via JavaScript, for instance, is much, much slower than setting the “translate” property.

5/21/2010