Chrome and HTML5 at Munich Google Developer Day 2010

We've now wrapped up our European Google Developer Day (GDD) tour, and one of the highlights was the on-stage presence of local and regional developers in the Chrome and HTML5 track. We'd like to thank all the developers who presented their creations at the events and we're going to summarise each of the presentations in a three-part series, one for each venue.

With no further adieu, here are the Chrome and HTML5 demos at GDD Munich.

HTML5

This session highlighted general HTML5 features, many of which work across all the modern web browsers.

The first HTML5 presentation came from Alex Kirk of Vienna, showing Colorillo, a fun multi-user painting app. We got to see a live demo, with audience members painting on the screen while Alex explained the app. His presentation explained the Hookbox technology behind Colorillo.

The second presentation was a never-seen-before technology showcase from Tobias Schneider of Uxebu. Starting with a video element showing a (2-dimensional) Tetris game, Tobias's app uses 540 Canvas elements to transform the pieces into a 3D animation. You can watch a video here.

Chrome Extensions

Earlier this year, the German GTUGs staged a "GTUG Battle" with the ambitious goal of identifying "the very best and most stunning Google Chrome Extension ever". The extensions were judged in three categories - browser action, page action, and innovation - and the Chrome Extensions track in Munich saw presentations from all three winners.

First up, Innovation winner Stefan Grothkopp presented Tabs Plus, a tool that shows you thumbnail images of open tabs and lets you search across them.

Next, we saw Page Action winner Benny Lehejcek and Martin Becker presented PopChrom, a time saving tool that lets you define abbreviations (macros) wherever you type in the browser.

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Last but not least, Browser Action winners Stephan Linzner, Mischa M.-Kupriyanov, and Aygul Zagidullina presented Social Media Monitoring, winner of the Browser Action category.

Chrome Web Store

The Chrome Web Store has not yet launched, but this session explained how to write apps for the store, and we showed two in-progress apps due for launch.

Nader Cserny of Berlin demonstrated Compuccino's app, Musweet. The app aggregates music videos, news and other media, and allows users to create custom watchlists so they can follow their favourite artists.

Next, Enrique Borras and Joan Serras from Fiabee showed us the upcoming Fiabee web app. Fiabee is a cloud storage solution and the Fiabee app for Chrome serves as a web based client of this service, moving data in both directions. Data in the cloud, such as images, videos, and audio, can be shown in the browser. And, using the extension mechanism available to packaged web apps for Chrome, data such as images on the page can be uploaded back to the cloud.