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Firefox 4 as been released this morning. This stable version supports WebGL, you just need to activate it. Type “about:config” in the address bar and enter “webgl” in the filter field. Then, double-click the “webgl.force-enabled” entry to change it to “true”. Have fun!

Posted in WebGL | Tagged firefox, stable, webgl | Leave a comment

Runes of Magic takes a wrong turn with Kalydo

Posted on March 17, 2011 by william

Yes, in-browser MMORPG games will have a lot of success in the future. Unfortunately, Runes of Magic is wrong by investing in the Kalydo technologies. Their browser plug-in will soon become obsolete, as the Flash Player plug-in does right now.

Runewaker Entertainment and Frogster should take a look at the new WebGL and WebSocket technologies that will be up in all major stable browsers before they release their plug-in based browser game.

Posted in Browser gaming | Tagged browser, cloud gaming, game, mmorpg, plug-in, Runes of Magic, webgl, websocket | 3 Comments

Internet Explorer 9 beta review

Posted on March 16, 2011 by william

Internet Explorer 9 claimed to be the new big thing, faster and stronger. By the current 9.0.8 version, it still can not run all HTML5 demos and lacks at some CSS3 features.

If you try these simple HTML5 demos, you will also notice that IE9 is slower than Chrome.

Furthermore, IE9 does not support WebGL at all. I just hope that we are not close to a release candidate.

Posted in HTML5 | Tagged chrome, css3, html5, IE9, Internet Explorer, release candidate, webgl | Leave a comment

Open-Source OpenGL Games

Posted on March 10, 2011 by william

For reference, here is some popular open-source OpenGL games.

Open Arena

First-person shooter (FPS) game based heavily on the Quake III Arena style deathmatch.

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Posted in OpenGL | Tagged deathmatch, fps, game, open-source, opengl, quake | Leave a comment

WebSocket supported browsers

Posted on March 7, 2011 by william

WebSocket is a protocol that can be used within a browser for real two-way communication with a web server. The current stable browsers that supports WebSocket are Google Chrome and Safari. In addition, Firefox 4 which will soon be available as a stable version will also support this new W3C API.

Posted in WebSocket | Tagged browser, chrome, communication, firefox, protocol, safari, server, two-way, w3c, web, websocket | 3 Comments

WebGL Libraries and Frameworks

Posted on March 6, 2011 by william

WebGL implementation of Google O3D

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Sencha Labs PhiloGL Framework

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GLGE javascript library

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Canvas 3D JS Library (c3DL)

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THREE.JS

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Posted in WebGL | Tagged framework, glge, google, javascript, library, o3d, philogl, webgl | Leave a comment

Stable Chrome version now supports WebGL

Posted on March 5, 2011 by william

Since February 4th, 2011, the stable version of Google Chrome supports the new WebGL implementation. We can’t wait to see this appening on Firefox and Opera, that are now supporting it in their beta releases.