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Why isn't Mozilla working with standard bodies on this and instead trying to pushing their proprietary, developed in secret APIs on everyone? Do they think the

• AshleysBrain 13y ago
  I think the intent is to get this standardised, and I'd assume they already are working with standards bodies on this. Mozilla are very much in favour of openness and I can't think off the top of my head anything they've actually done which is intentionally proprietary.
• kevingadd 13y ago
  Mozilla was responsible for the original WebGL specification: "WebGL grew out of the Canvas 3D experiments started by Vladimir Vukićević at Mozilla. Vukićević first demonstrated a Canvas 3D prototype in 2006. By the end of 2007, both Mozilla[6] and Opera[7] had made their own separate implementations. In early 2009, the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group started the WebGL Working Group, with initial participation from Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, and others.[4][8] Version 1.0 of the WebGL specification was released March 2011.[1] As of March 2012, the chair of the working group is Ken Russell." Seems like it worked fine, so why not do it again?
• azakai 13y ago
  As the article says, this is just a prototype, and will only ship in nightly builds. To ship in a stable release, it would need to be standardized of course.
• sluukkonen 13y ago
  Good standards stem from real-world experience. It's best to implement something yourself (even better if there are other competing implementations), and then seek standardization.