Comments on: First sign of WebGL lands in WebKit

By: yt

yt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:22:23 +0000

_This is pretty cool but I refuse to code 3d apps in a non-compiled language… _

tell that to the professional games coders who use lua.

By: parsap

parsap — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:34:34 +0000

functionform, I think that’s a personal problem ;)

By: functionform

functionform — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:01:59 +0000

This is pretty cool but I refuse to code 3d apps in a non-compiled language… I’m just tired of not having a proper syntax/reference checker like Eclipse for Java. Javascript is great for tying things together, but it kills me for larger projects.

By: Jordan1

Jordan1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:31:01 +0000

I’m pretty sure that MooTools has a plugin that uses WebGL. Their community is pretty large.

By: dimitryz

dimitryz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:39:41 +0000

These are exciting times for application developers. The last of the wall in online hosting of full-featured desktop applications is coming down.

I can imagine an application that cannot be moved into the browser space. This is it folks. All programming will soon be web programming, so screw you Michael Braude http://www.michaelbraude.com/2009/05/why-ill-never-be-web-guy.html.

PS, that last bit is a joke.

By: randomrandom

randomrandom — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:54:26 +0000

@pianoroy:
I’m 100% with you on that one.

By: pianoroy

pianoroy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:07:22 +0000

We ought to develop applications and games that utilize the WebGL standard, and just post a notice on sites that tells people they need to download a WebGL-supporting browser. The demand for the awesome apps/games we develop will override the resistance to downloading another browser, especially if people are already somehow familiar with the games/apps. Think Quake 3D, Unreal Tournament, or even Tetris — all things that would hold great appeal, even for an in-browser experience.

By: Darkimmortal

Darkimmortal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:06:54 +0000

@Joeri

Heard of O3D? It’s leaps and bounds ahead of any other in-browser 3D technology, and it works in IE.

By: randomrandom

randomrandom — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:26:34 +0000

More(*) ideally, someone will implement a declarative 3D language on top of it. Say COLLADA, VRML/X3D or some JSON version of those.

Even more ideally, find a way to make 3D objects accessible through the DOM. I hope there’s still a way out of that procedural canvassy mindset.

(*) I don’t believe in Platonism. There’s always a better ideal.

By: Jadet

Jadet — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:20:13 +0000

“jQuery-inizing” high-level API’s is a bad idea to start with. A lot of people start throwing jquery into the mix where it’s not even needed or even geared towards such a thing. The best high-level API on top of this would be one without a framework.

By: sos

sos — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:17:04 +0000

Forget about Microsoft for now – they’ll never implement this in IE. Why this is so exciting is that mobile devices that use WebKit (iPhone, Palm Pre etc) will have native 3D in a browser. The desktop market is more difficult, as MS are so entrenched, but the mobile market is going more and more in WebKits direction, so great things could happen there.

By: PeterGeil

PeterGeil — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:56:42 +0000

Awesome! Hope to see it broadly implemented in a not too far away future. Maybe those features will be the begin of Flash(r)’s downturn as first choice for multimedia-intensive applications.

By: Transfinite

Transfinite — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:36:37 +0000

…And do we even care, they can marginalize themselves all they want.

By: V1

V1 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:42:09 +0000

Why do you even ask that question while you already know the answer of it..

By: Joeri

Joeri — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:29:58 +0000

But, the most important question remains: when, if ever, will microsoft implement it?