Browser Physics Using the new web standards to produce physics

AgX Multiphysics inside the browser

Tomas Brännström wrote in his masters thesis recently,

JavaScript is the de facto language for client-side scripting on the web and has in recent years received a great boost in performance thanks to the `browser wars' where the different browser vendors compete to get higher market shares. AgX is a physics engine developed by Algoryx in Umeå, intended for use in simulations. This thesis explores possible methods of integrating JavaScript with AgX and in extension the possibility of integrating AgX into the web browser as a plugin, effectively enabling AgX for use in different web applications. Efforts were made to combine the embedded JavaScript API with the AgX browser plugin. This was found to be unfeasible for different reasons, although the AgX plugin as a separate piece of software was shown to work well.

Another indication that physics softwares are better suited in an external plugin rather than inside the browser.