Shalom wrote the game exclusively in JavaScript, using elements of WebGL and HTML5 to allow the game to come to graphical life in the browser.

For some use cases, like in rendering 3D point cloud, it is not necessary to read back the data from GPU. When needed, use WebGL 2.0 transform feedback or readPixels.

While Firefox and Chrome browsers already support WebGL, along with development versions of Opera and Safari, Microsoft has said that it has no plans to make Internet Explorer support the 3D ...

WebGL would offer an alternative that functions as an open standard, with a specification available royalty-free to any developers who want to use it.

The organization has established a WebGL workgroup that will define a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 which can be used to build 3D engines for the Web.

In a follow-up post featured at the Mozilla Hacks website, he shows how WebGL can be used to display a COLLADA model. Specifically, he uses a critter exported from the popular video game Spore.

Apple’s Books app is a gorgeous design and experience, mimicking that of a bookshelf, but Google has outdone them with its WebGL Bookcase which is hosted on its “ Chrome Experiments ” site.

WebGL was developed as an offshoot of the OpenGL standard in order to allow 3D graphics to render inside browsers using Javascript without the need for plug-ins.

Update. Angry Birds is now live on the Chrome Web Store. The new version of Angry Birds supports Canvas as well as WebGL. The entire game is also available to play offline using Google Chrome cache.

Ne'er-do-wells could also use WebGL and the Canvas element to pull image data from another domain, which could then be used as part of a more elaborate attack.