Seems like WebGL is about to land. Chrome 9 beta, Firefox 4 beta 8 and Safari Nighly Build have it enabled by default already. It’s just a matter of weeks for the final versions to be released.
I think we’re going to face a funny situation… For web developers OpenGL may be a bit intimidating — at least it was for me! For game developers it’s piece of cake, but because some features have been disabled some of them feel like a step back in their careers. So it’s an area where there won’t be so many people for a while.
You may know that, for the last few months, I’ve been busy developing a library that aims to make this as painless and fun as possible. Hopefully there will be more libraries like this in the near future.
If you’re a web developer I would suggest you to start tinkering with all this. I have the feeling things are going to move quite fast as soon as it lands. Won’t be long until Mobile Safari — iOS and Android browser — also enables this.
Exciting times! 🙂
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