http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/introducing-angle-project.html "We're happy to announce a new open source project called Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine, or ANGLE for short. The goal of ANGLE is to layer WebGL's subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API over DirectX 9.0c API calls. We're open-sourcing ANGLE under the BSD license as an early work-in-progress, but when complete, it will enable browsers like Google Chrome to run WebGL content on Windows computers without having to rely on OpenGL drivers.
Current browser implementations of WebGL need to be able to issue graphics commands to desktop OpenGL to render content. This requirement isn't a problem on computers running OS X or Linux, where OpenGL is the primary 3D API and therefore enjoys solid support. On Windows, however, most graphics-intensive apps use Microsoft Direct3D APIs instead of OpenGL, so OpenGL drivers are not always available. Unfortunately, this situation means that even if they have powerful graphics hardware, many Windows machines can't render WebGL content because they don't have the necessary OpenGL drivers installed. ANGLE will allow Windows users to run WebGL content without having to find and install new drivers for their system.
Because ANGLE aims to implement most of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API, the project may also be useful for developers who are working on applications for mobile and embedded devices. ANGLE should make it simpler to prototype these applications on Windows, and also gives developers new options for deploying production versions of their code to the desktop.
We hope that other WebGL implementors and others in the graphics community will join us to make ANGLE successful! For more info on ANGLE and to access the code repository, visit the new project on Google Code or join our discussion group."
So, it'd be interesting to see if it runs on Wine. I love stacking them blocks as high as I can :-)
Am 19.03.2010 um 07:37 schrieb Dan Kegel:
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/introducing-angle-project.html "We're happy to announce a new open source project called Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine, or ANGLE for short. The goal of ANGLE is to layer WebGL's subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API over DirectX 9.0c API calls.
That's nothing new. Mesa had a GL driver based on directx since a long time. I think this driver stopped somewhere around opengl 1.2 when pretty much all cards on windows had native GL drivers anyway.
Personally, I think WebGL is a bad idea in the first place. It's not like rendering "simple" HTML/CSS/Javascript isn't hard enough, and going by the amount of GL/D3D driver bugs we see it's clearly impossibly to write graphics drivers, let alone secure ones. ANGLE will probably be just another layer to exploit, although the Chrome sandboxing thing might mitigate it a bit.
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