WebGL in Internet Explorer (opens in new tab)

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17 pointsmurz14y ago7 comments

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AshleysBrain14y ago· 2 in thread

"I'm still confident that Microsoft will add WebGL support to IE" - hmm! Really?

I think Microsoft will.

Yes, Microsoft has opposed it so far. But WebGL is gaining traction and will soon be enabled in all web browsers but IE. Interesting websites using it are starting to appear, and that will only accelerate.

So Microsoft will lose out by being the only browser not supporting a useful technology. People will prefer other browsers. Where Microsoft has nothing to lose by implementing WebGL.

windsurfer14y ago

Won't it be WebDirectX then? DirectX is a direct competitor to OpenGL.

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extension14y ago

a work-in-progress that implements WebGL with Canvas

That's a neat hack but it is absolutely not going to work in any practical sense. There is already a many orders of magnitude performance gap, and depth buffering will at least add yet another order of magnitude.

Also, canvas only supports affine texture mapping, as opposed to perspective-correct 3D mapping. This looks completely ridiculous for many common cases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perspective_correct_textur...

And, canvas can't cleanly stitch textured polygons together, so there will be visible seams everywhere.

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but I think one would find this endeavor very discouraging in the end.

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