Message: 6 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:29:08 +0100 From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Subject: [Commons-l] WebGL enabled in Firefox nightlies To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fbad4e140909220829w6c20fff4n23f5ae4e80b6873d@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/webgl-in-firefox-nightly-bui...
This is actually a library usable with JavaScript. But the question does occur to me: is there anything in this we could use? Content it was previously unfeasible to serve?
- d.
We could display 3d world files (VRML and what not. which honestly this whole webGL thing imho seems to vrml/x3d what canvas is to svg - two sides of the same coin. but than again i'm not all that familiar with it). I'm not sure how useful that'd be. Could display 3d shapes perhaps where the user could control the viewpoint. Maybe to make 3d-tour esque things where you could look arround a place. Overall the uses of such a thing seem rather minimal.
-bawolff