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Chrome browser has a well-established name for being not only intensely fast at executing JavaScript, but also powerful in its support of cutting edge HTML5 technologies. Both these capacities are on view at Chrome Experiments, a site that Google set up to demonstrate some of the coolest demos on the internet for JavaScript applications, complex CSS layouts and animations done with Canvas.

Chrome Experiments now has over hundred demos on offer, and some of them are picked out favourites for this little studio. Interest is exploding in HTML5 and its companion technology. The hope is that these developing standards will be commonly used to power new web applications along with for playing animations, songs and videos in the browser without any add-ons.

Developers and content suppliers continue to rely on plug-ins like Flash or Silverlight for such multimedia playback jobs for now, but they're increasingly turning to HTML5, JavaScript and other web standards as browser makers carry on building the new capacities into their latest releases.
Testing of all these experiments in multiple browsers revealed that, virtually every one of them worked in Safari and Firefox, though they performed far better in the latest beta of Firefox 4 than in the present stable Firefox 3.x builds. Many of them also work perfectly in the most recent Microsoft pre-release, Internet Explorer 9 preview 3.

Naturally, a couple of the Chrome demos on the Experiments site use Webkit specific technologies and CSS prefixes, so those only work in Chrome and Safari. Some have pooh-poohed vendor particular prefixes, and others see them as a necessary step to coerce browser makers to take on the most recent behaviors being used in natural settings. Without reference to that debate, it's inspiring to see the different browsers all improving their JavaScript capabilities, which all these demos exploit.