Programmer/designer [Steven Wittens] has posted a fantastic write-up on the black art of producing compact demo code, dissecting his own entry in the 1K JavaScript Demo Contest. The goal is to prod… ...

The demonstration attracted some attention, prompting the developers to publish the source code. Broadway is based on the open source H.264 decoder that Google uses in Android.

The Epic Citadel demo is 52 megabytes of JavaScript, which uses WebGL to draw to an HTML5 canvas. The JavaScript was created with Emscripten, which allows developers to compile existing C++ code ...