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What they initially proposed was essentially WebMetal. Their likely reasons for doing so were to force a change in venue to W3C instead of Khronos, and preempt
by modeless 5y ago
What they initially proposed was essentially WebMetal. Their likely reasons for doing so were to force a change in venue to W3C instead of Khronos, and preempt any attempt at a WebGL 3 or WebVulkan, due to their ongoing legal dispute with Khronos (also the reason they deprecated OpenGL).