WebGL Presented 1.0 for Internet 3D Acceleration

Developed by the Khronos Group, open interface "WebGL" is based on a simplified version of OpenGL and can be integrated with HTML 5 directly into web pages. In combination with JavaScript allows web pages without detours via a plug-in to use graphics hardware. In the future, WebGL be used primarily for browser games, so far, mostly calculated by the CPU and GPU-accelerated more than a Flash client to benefit from the performance of the graphics card.

Supports WebGL is already of Google Chrome. Mozilla and Opera are coming to the Firefox Opera 10.5 4 and integrate, and Apple plans to integrate the next version of Safari. Only Microsoft boycotted the open standard until further notice and will provide support in Internet Explorer 9 no. According Chip.de limitation could be that the Plug-In Chrome frame around that use the WebKit engine in an Internet Explorer tab allows.

In the Khronos Group is a coalition of over 100 IT companies (including AMD, Nvidia, ATI, Creative, id Software, Sun and Google), which has the development of open source APIs goal. The recent developments are in addition to OpenGL and WebGL also OpenCL and the sound interface OpenSL ES (not used with OpenAL that is primarily developed by Creative).