WebGL
WebGL is the standard which specification is developed now, intended for the 3D display of graphics in web browsers. This technology allows to implement the hardware accelerated 3D graphics in web pages without need to use special plug-ins of the web browser on any platform supporting OpenGL or OpenGL ES. Technically, it will represent the binding of JavaScript-scripts to the functions defined in OpenGL ES 2.0 libraries, implemented at the level of the browser.
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Working group
In the structure of the working group developing the standard enter: Khronos Group developers of browsers Apple Safari Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera and also specialists AMD and Nvidia.
Availability
WebGL is further development of Canvas of a 3D experiment in Mozilla and is already presented in night assemblies of Mozilla Firefox and WebKit and also in in the ninth version of the Google Chrome browser.
Libraries
WebGLU is the first library which was available to developers. At the moment there are also GLGE, C3DL, Copperlicht, SpiderGL and SceneJS.
History
On December 10, 2009 the consortium published the first draft WebGL specification. The chairman of group Arun Ranganatan, said that completion of work on the specification is expected in the first quarter 2010.
On February 3, 2011 Google released the ninth version of the Google Chrome web browser. The main innovations became support of WebGL technology.
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