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From a company that funded Khronos for OpenGL ES and shared canvas/webkit with the world, this would be the wrong direction. WebGL success is largely hooked to

From a company that funded Khronos for OpenGL ES and shared canvas/webkit with the world, this would be the wrong direction. WebGL success is largely hooked to OpenGL and its use on mobile as OGLES and WebGL are based on the same base spec. The OpenGL battle was just won with mobile, why replace that?

ctdonath 12y ago
Get the competition where you want them, while you move to higher ground.
- motoboi 12y ago
  Are we talking about Sun Tzu stuff here? “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” Is this particular case, make everybody compromises performance by adapting themselves to OpenGL while we prepare an almost-bare-metal thing?
  - ctdonath 12y ago
    The key (and there's probably a Sun Tzu quote about it as well) is getting your competition to where they want to be ... in a way that entangles them there. OpenGL is a respectable place to be, and making it an industry standard & norm ensures everyone can achieve their goals by leveraging the work of others; there's nothing wrong with a solid grounding in OpenGL. The trick, of course, is recognizing that there is always a better position, and preparing to move there while helping everyone else get to a nice comfortable position below it.
krisdol 12y ago
Agreed. I've been excited at the notion that OpenGL was becoming the de-facto low level graphics API (if you want any multi-platform compatibility), and then Apple throws this new thing out to re-fragment the market.
bluthru 12y ago
The processing gains are very impressive, though. If it was only 2x as fast, I'd agree with you... but 10x in some cases?! That's worth fragmenting. Is this really much different than programming for a console?

ctdonath 12y ago

Get the competition where you want them, while you move to higher ground.

motoboi 12y ago
Are we talking about Sun Tzu stuff here? “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” Is this particular case, make everybody compromises performance by adapting themselves to OpenGL while we prepare an almost-bare-metal thing?
- ctdonath 12y ago
  The key (and there's probably a Sun Tzu quote about it as well) is getting your competition to where they want to be ... in a way that entangles them there. OpenGL is a respectable place to be, and making it an industry standard & norm ensures everyone can achieve their goals by leveraging the work of others; there's nothing wrong with a solid grounding in OpenGL. The trick, of course, is recognizing that there is always a better position, and preparing to move there while helping everyone else get to a nice comfortable position below it.

krisdol 12y ago

Agreed. I've been excited at the notion that OpenGL was becoming the de-facto low level graphics API (if you want any multi-platform compatibility), and then Apple throws this new thing out to re-fragment the market.

bluthru 12y ago

The processing gains are very impressive, though. If it was only 2x as fast, I'd agree with you... but 10x in some cases?! That's worth fragmenting. Is this really much different than programming for a console?