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== Gecko == | == Gecko == | ||
* I know he's been with us for a while, but now he's officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto! | * I know he's been with us for a while, but now he's officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto! | ||
* Last week, at SIGGRAPH 2009, Khronos [http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/khronos-webgl-initiative-hardware-accelerated-3d-graphics-internet/ gave more details on the WebGL initiative]. | |||
** Mozilla's leading the Khronos working group, with Arun Ranganathan being the working group's chair. | |||
** A lot of this work is based on Vladimir Vukicevic's work on Canvas3D; Mozilla's implementation of Web3D is based on canvas3d, with the work needed to update it to the new standard being done by Mark Steele. | |||
** Both Apple and Google have implementations of Web3D as well. Google showed their implementation at the Khronos OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH last week. Great response from the audience. | |||
** Our basic assumption is that JavaScript is fast enough, and in Mozilla's case, that's thanks to the Tracemonkey folks. | |||
== Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | == Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | ||