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If you think this kind of technology compares to Google Reader, you are just confused. WebGL would be a better comparison.
by pekk 13y ago
If you think this kind of technology compares to Google Reader, you are just confused. WebGL would be a better comparison.
- coldtea 13y agoOnly WebGL is a standard, whereas PNaCL is a Google only endeavor. If it doesn't catch up, they might abandon it just as they did anything else of theirs. Whereas they cannot abandon WebGL if they want to have a standards compliant browser.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoActually google doesn't seem to have much problems with abandoning standards lately.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoPerhaps Google's O3D, their 3D graphics implementation in the browser, which you haven't heard of. Why? Because when WebGL beat it, it was dropped.
- mratzloff 13y agoAt least Google released a final version of O3D that was an implementation on top of WebGL, providing a transition path. When they dropped Gears, they said they said, We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible...[1] How did that turn out? They filed a Chromium ticket[2] that was moved to an html5rocks.com ticket[3] four months later that was closed as WONTFIX a month after that. My issue is not that they discontinue projects. My issue is how they often go about it. [1] http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 [3] http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73 http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73