JavaScript creator Brendan Eich included a demonstration of the H.264 decoder—codenamed Broadway—during a presentation at the ACM’s annual OOPSLA conference.

The Epic Citadel demo is 52 megabytes of JavaScript, which uses WebGL to draw to an HTML5 canvas.

It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo.

Mozilla has released "Broadway," a native JavaScript-based H.264 decoder that can show video at 30 frames per second on conventional hardware. It offers a ...