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With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality
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| 3D graphics became ordinary first in games,
| then in operating systems, and on Thursday,
| it took a significant step toward being
| built into Web browsers as well.
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| The Khronos Group, which oversees the OpenGL
| graphics interface, announced that its work
| with Mozilla to bring hardware-accelerated
| 3D graphics to the Web has reached draft
| standard form. The standard, called WebGL,
| lets programmers who use the Web's
| JavaScript language take advantage of the
| fact that video cards can handle 3D graphics
| with aplomb.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10413447-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
WebGL draft spec brings 3D interweb future one step closer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/11/webgl_draft_specification_released/
the x86 instruction proprietary extensions: a waste of time, money and energy
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| Agner Fog, a Danish expert in software
| optimization is making a plea for an open
| and standarized procedure for x86
| instruction set extensions. Af first sight,
| this may seem a discussion that does not
| concern most of us. After all, the poor
| souls that have to program the insanely
| complex x86 compilers will take care of the
| complete chaos called "the x86 ISA", right?
| Why should the average the developer, system
| administrator or hardware enthusiast care?
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http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=661
Smart Phones, eBook Readers, and the Same Old, Same Old
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| In short, the world is moving to the ePub
| standard, with Amazon as, apparently, the
| primary holdout. That means that it will be
| in everyone's best interests to optimize
| every device (except the Kindle) to the ePub
| standards, and to convert every book to the
| ePub standard. Amazon, on the other hand,
| will need to support its hardware and format
| standard all by itself. Of course, not being
| a hardware or software company, it will need
| to rely onâoh yesâthe Taiwanese to supply
| them with the sort of cutting edge
| technology to be able to beatâ.Hmmm. That
| may be a problem.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091211064933795
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