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With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Fri Dec 11 10:23:36 2009
With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality
by Stephen Shankland, www.cnet.com
December 10, 2009 2:06 PM PST
3D graphics became ordinary first in games, then in operating systems,
and on Thursday, it took a significant step toward being built into Web
browsers as well.
The Khronos Group, which oversees the OpenGL graphics interface,
announced that its work with Mozilla to bring hardware-accelerated 3D
graphics to the Web has reached draft standard form. The standard,
called WebGL, lets programmers who use the Web's JavaScript language
take advantage of the fact that video cards can handle 3D graphics with
aplomb.
The group now wants commentary from Web developers and others who might
be involved with WebGL so it can be finalized. "I anticipate us moving
toward a spec that is not provisional, not merely a draft, in early
2010, the first quarter," said Arun Ranganathan, chairman of the WebGL
working group and standards evangelist at Mozilla.
For rest of the article, please see:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10413447-264.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
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