WebGL specification is final

Khronos released version 1.0 of the WebGL specification a few days ago at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

In case you’re curious, WebGL is a sort of JavaScript binding to OpenGL. I started messing with OpenGL in 1998 and I find it amazing that it’s still here in some form, all those years later in an industry which is infamous for its quick technology changes.

Ancient tomes of wisdom I read in my youth.

Khronos also mentioned another thing in their press release, namely the formation of the WebCL working group which will work on a similar spec for bindings to OpenCL (Open Computing Language) which could be very interesting.

Go ahead and try some of the demos (such as Quake 3 or 3D sounds), but for full conformance you need a modern browser such as Chrome 9+, Firefox 4+ or Safari OSX 10.6+. They will probably work in Opera 11 as well.

Or why not have a look at my humble WebGL examples?