Despite the attention hogging explosive growth of the mobile app, the browser remains the foundation of the web and is a vital component of the internet. It is not going away and there has been a raft of technical advances taking it to the next level. Faster javascript engines, faster graphics libraries with GPU support, lower latency networking, HTML5 and exciting new technologies such as DART and NaCl are redefining what can be done in the browser. A whole new generation of near native perform …