Were happy to announce a new open source project called Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine, or ANGLE for short. The goal of ANGLE is to layer WebGLs subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API over DirectX 9.0c API calls. Were open-sourcing ANGLE under the BSD license as an early work-in-progress, but when complete, it will enable browsers like Google Chrome to run WebGL content on Windows computers without having to rely on OpenGL drivers.
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"About a year and a half ago, I demoed an early prototype of an OpenGL 3D context for the canvas element at XTech. There was a lot of interest, but due to time constraints I wasn't able to spend as much time working on it as I would have liked. In addition, Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 wasn't in a state where the extension could run against an unpatched build.
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