WebGL reaches draft standard form
Khronos has announced that its standard for deploying OpenGL in JavaScript has reached “draft standard” — which means that it is inviting comment from developers. There’s still a ways to go:
But don’t hold your breath for Web-based first-person shooters that rival native applications. First, even if 3D is accelerated, there are plenty of other processing and user interface constraints on Web applications. Second, even after WebGL is standardized, it must be built into browsers, people must upgrade to those new versions, and programmers must learn how to support the technology.
With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality | Deep Tech – CNET News.
That said, all the browser makers except Microsoft are backing the potential new standard (though Google has O3D going as well, of course).
It might also breathe new life into VRML/X3D — there’s efforts afoot to marry the two.
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I suspect that the reason why Microsoft is not supporting it is because of its initiatives with DirectX 2D. Silverlight’s getting COM+ access in 4.0. GDI+ is going to be marked as deprecated in favor of a unified DirectX based Windows GUI. Once the desktop is rendered using DirectX, nothing stops Microsoft from extending the browser to have access to the Windows UI 3D resources. This is really just another round of OpenGL versus DirectX. Last time DirectX won convincingly. I’m not so sure this time but you can’t count it out just yet.
I ask for a screwdriver, I get a turf battle between flathead and phillips.
Yes but phillips thinks it’s a better screwdriver because when it comes to driving screws, the “+” pattern of its head applies more torque and resists slipping. Driving screws has never been easier according to the phillips camp. Not to be outdone, the flathead people remind everyone that a flathead has the ability to not only drive screws but to act like a chisel so because it applies in more varied situations, it is clearly better.
Ummm… Does this mean we are recreating the operating system in-browser because the browser is ubiquitous?