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This articles is from 2010 and is really dated. Even Microsoft supports WebGL (based OpenGL ES 2) in Internet Explorer 11. Beside that the article doesn't men
by frik 13y ago
This articles is from 2010 and is really dated.
Even Microsoft supports WebGL (based OpenGL ES 2) in Internet Explorer 11.
Beside that the article doesn't mention that OpenGL 2 came late (and 1.x is way outdated). And to bootstrap OpenGL 2+ on Windows you still need a OpenGL 1.4 context to create an OpenGL 2+ context. So not so trivial at all :/
As the article is pre-smartphone era: the future for OpenGL/WebGL is very good now. You can run WebGL on every device/OS (beside Windows, OpenGL 2/3 but no ES driver).
- gtirloni 13y agoIt's funny how many old stuff (that is supposed to rely on current data) is posted on HN. I am still getting used to this. I was reading the article and he mentions WinXP is half of all gamers.. I couldn't believe my eyes. These things should come with a disclaimer here like "really really old stuff, i just want to pick a few points from it which are this and this. ignore the rest".