OpenGL in Web Pages (Firefox 2.0)

May 18th, 2006

According to Vladimir Vukicevic, the Canvas 3D Context should be available in about 2 weeks. This is exciting news as it offers web developers a great way to draw 3D graphics into their webpages; it might even be a nice way to replace Flash.

Slide 27 of this presentation has a screenshot of what can be done with Canvas 3D. 

However, it is noted the 3D Canvas has a very low level API which: 

  • Doesn’t feel very "web"
  • Will be hard to use without helper libraries
  • It’s a full 3D API; hard to do it any other way

  1. Mozilla XTech Presentations
  2. Firefox 1.5 canvas tag
  3. Cairo in Firefox
  4. Firefox 2.0 UI Changes
  5. svg:foreignobject in Firefox 3

One Response to “OpenGL in Web Pages (Firefox 2.0)”

  1. # Harshit Surekaon 01 Jun 2009 at 6:36 am

    Sir,
    I am working on a Image rendering project and I would like to use commands of modelling and transforming 3D objects as in opengl.
    Will this tool allow the same?
    Please reply on the mail Specified.

    Thanking you.

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