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And since this article was written Microsoft has pretty much admitted defeat by incorporating WebGL (a simplified version of OpenGL) in IE11.
by spikels 13y ago
And since this article was written Microsoft has pretty much admitted defeat by incorporating WebGL (a simplified version of OpenGL) in IE11.
- ygra 13y agoHas there ever been a competing option of WebDirectX they could have tried to push instead? Or is admitting defeat in this case the same as admitting defeat by implementing Flexbox?
- hansjorg 13y agoSilverlight?
- kevingadd 13y agoThere's no way they ever would have exposed DirectX to JavaScript. It's not really admitting defeat to implement a web platform feature that customers want when you have no alternative. They used to be pushing Silverlight as a way to do 3D rendering (which made sense, because it had the DirectX bindings from XNA and .NET is a superior platform for rendering code when compared with JavaScript) but now that Silverlight and basically every other native plugin is on the way out, there's no way they can lean on that anymore.
- rbanffy 13y agoExposing DirectX to JavaScript would be like allowing the browser to run VBScrpt code. They tried.
- bitwize 13y agoThere was a time when Internet Explorer could run VBScript code... you said <script language="VBScript"> ... What I think you mean is letting the browser run scripts in the Windows Scripting Host, which gives you unlimited access to the filesystem, etc.