What Is WebGL?
WebGL is a JavaScript API that gives programmers access to the 3D hardware on the user’s machine. Currently, it is supported only by the debug/development versions of Opera, Firefox, and Chrome. The API is managed by Kronos, the same organization that manages OpenGL. In fact, much of WebGL is similar to programming in OpenGL. This is both good and bad. It’s good because it’s a standard programming interface that is recognizable to many developers, but it is bad because it is not as easy to learn as the 2D Canvas context.
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