HTTP:: Webkit Now Offers Limited Support for 3D Graphics with WebGL
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WebGL, a nascent project that aims to bring 3D rendering capabilities to web browsers, made its first small step with the introduction in the developer builds of Webkit, the open-source HTML rendering engine first developed by Apple and used in Safari and Google Chrome. The support isn't enabled by default and isn't even available in the nightly builds of the rendering engine, so users have to compile the sources with the necessary arguments to get it working. The WebGL project is being backed by some heavy players with interest in the technology like browser makers Google, Apple, Mozilla and Opera and 3D hardware makers AMD and Nvidia. Development is supervised by the Khronos Group, an industry consortium that also handles OpenGL and also the new OpenCL API. WebGL will, in fact, use OpenGL as the underlying technology to do the actual rendering and aims to create a JavaScript wrapper for accessing the hardware capabilities. 3D graphics for the web are already available t!
hrough proprietary plugins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight. The technology will use the 'canvas' element from the proposed HTML 5 standard to do the actual drawing and should benefit from the greater emphasis on JavaScript performance, which most browser makers are making. It is expected to start seeing a wid...
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