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I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you

I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you're thinking about contributing for the first time.

mortyseinfeld 13y ago
Sorry to be dense, I know what WebGL is, but what's VAO?
- riq_ 13y ago
  It means Vertex Array Object. http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object.txt http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object...
- deleted 13y ago
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- evanmoran 13y ago
  My understanding is Vertex Array Objects are one of the core browser improvements that asm.js taps into to make C++ based game engines (unreal, rage, unity) crazy fast. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-release-unreal-engine-3-html5-demo-to-the-public-and-its-awesome http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-releas...
lxt 13y ago
Thank you for your contribution!
Yoric 13y ago
We love contributors :) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction
- rohitv 13y ago
  This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?
  - shadowfox 13y ago
    You could look here: https://openhatch.org/ https://openhatch.org/
  - hoers 13y ago
    Tor or i2p if you're into crypto and/or making the web safer.
  - dysoco 13y ago
    KDE is usually very nice, and (believe it or not) the Linux Kernel (Just make sure you know EXACTLY how to send patches and so on). Although lately I haven't worked in anything, would like to hear about more great opensource projects.
    - elithrar 13y ago
      Both Django and Rails are very inviting. There's also Plenrt of libraries for many languages that can provide a smaller, more specific place to start (it's often easier if you work with it regularly). With many projects though, some conflate "my patch was rejected" for "they're jerks" without understanding the impact of their fix/suggestions. Feature bloat, backwards compat, API verbosity, etc all add up.

mortyseinfeld 13y ago

Sorry to be dense, I know what WebGL is, but what's VAO?

riq_ 13y ago
It means Vertex Array Object. http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object.txt http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object...
deleted 13y ago
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evanmoran 13y ago
My understanding is Vertex Array Objects are one of the core browser improvements that asm.js taps into to make C++ based game engines (unreal, rage, unity) crazy fast. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-release-unreal-engine-3-html5-demo-to-the-public-and-its-awesome http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-releas...

lxt 13y ago

Thank you for your contribution!

Yoric 13y ago

We love contributors :) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

rohitv 13y ago
This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?
- shadowfox 13y ago
  You could look here: https://openhatch.org/ https://openhatch.org/
- hoers 13y ago
  Tor or i2p if you're into crypto and/or making the web safer.
- dysoco 13y ago
  KDE is usually very nice, and (believe it or not) the Linux Kernel (Just make sure you know EXACTLY how to send patches and so on). Although lately I haven't worked in anything, would like to hear about more great opensource projects.
  - elithrar 13y ago
    Both Django and Rails are very inviting. There's also Plenrt of libraries for many languages that can provide a smaller, more specific place to start (it's often easier if you work with it regularly). With many projects though, some conflate "my patch was rejected" for "they're jerks" without understanding the impact of their fix/suggestions. Feature bloat, backwards compat, API verbosity, etc all add up.