>Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware a

>Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS"'. You left off the rest of the sentence though, the part that said "in some way that the browser can not". >Instagram takes advantage of the underlying OS and hardware when it uses photo filters. Same as native games do. Could it be done in browser? Probably. Same as games. The difference is that photo filters can be done, quite trivially, in the browser. Many games can not, because the performance of the javascript engines and the limited hardware accelerated drawing.