See Plenty Of Fish in Chrome Sea

Processing graphics in browser is becoming more and more important as multimedia and gaming capabilities get built into space typically reserved for text and information. Chrome has drastically improved the possibilities with GPU enhancements. Check out this example of fish swimmig at FPS breaking speeds:

Using sprites they were able to get up to tens of thousands of fish and still keep 25+ FPS. Pretty darn impressive and definitely an indicator of what’s to come in our browser.