Mozilla and Khronos to bring 3D standards to the web

[clevin]

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/mozilla-and-khronos-to-bring-standards-based-3d-to-the-web.ars

The Khronos Group, the organization behind OpenGL, is teaming up with Mozilla to create a vendor-neutral standard for 3D graphics in the browser. They intend to bring a subset of the OpenGL API to JavaScript so that it can be used in web applications.

[liptonlover]

This is great! I have a feeling it'll be widely accepted instantly, as soon as they get it out.

[Abstract]

Not with Microsoft around.

[liptonlover]

what can they do about it? Nothing comes to mind...

[clevin]

what can they do about it? Nothing comes to mind...
if it were to be established and implemented (firefox has experimental addon for this already)

1. simple 3D games cross browsers, platforms.
2. new 3 dimensional interactive with web content. a website can be like a virtual room, ads on one wall, news on another, etc

my limited imagination...

[Saladinos]

It'd do well to help standards-based HTML and Javascript win the war against Flash. No doubt that if they don't make a standard soon, Microsoft will. And that's worse.

That said, it's going to blur the lines between web and OS, and I don't like that (although I'm sure many others will).

[Cabbit]

This free and open standard will come out then a Microsoft one will come out later that will be the only one supported on Internet Exploder making developers pick once again between making it Internet Exploder or everything else compatible.