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