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.

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 ...