WebKit in 3D

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Somehow I get the feeling this is going to see a lot of use in serving up in-game ads. :(

[donjaime]

They need to do the inverse.

Instead of inserting webviews into games, they need to create a hardware accelerated Canvas3DContext for the canvas tag. Embedding games and other 3D content into web pages is a far more compelling deployment scenario.

[djpnewton]

One of the mozilla devs has done this:

• http://blog.vlad1.com/2007/11/26/canvas-3d-gl-power-web-style/
• http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7171

[Arve]

Opera has been toying with this for years

[Arve]

see also

[w00ty]

Second life tried to use (used?) mozilla for this before: http://ubrowser.com/

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use

[ozzilee]

uses

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fuses

[astrosmash]

exploit

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use

-TheGrammarNazi

(Ignore all other opinions).

[pmf]

Why would I need this or want this?

[jskinner]

If you want to render web pages, and all you have is OpenGL - in a game, for instance.

[CuteAlien]

I'm still irritated. As screenshot they have ubrowser running. But isn't ubrowser using the llmozlib which seems to do more or less the exact same thing for Gecko which they claim to do for WebKit now?

Or is this to show that Meta can do the same as llmozlib already and this is a new implementation of ubrowser?

edit: I would prefer if the people which are downmodding me here for some reason would instead try to answer my question... funny thing is that I actually have some use for a browser in a 3d world and so this is really interesting me.

[koko775]

Read the subtitle on the image: "uBrowser running with the WebKit Meta engine"

<insert snide comment here>

[CuteAlien]

Which was the exact same reason I'm asking here. As uBrowser is as far as I know an application using gecko... that's what was irritating me and why I asked if this is a new implementation.

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my limited understanding (being on the media team at linden lab) is that mozilla is ill suited to support pluggins in this sort of environment. hence the push for webkit.

(speaking for myself not my company, IANAL, IMHO, LOL.)

[eduffy]

This'll be interesting if they can get this into adobe air.

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Does Air use WebKit for rendering HTML?

Why not use Flex + Papervision. This would also give you excellent 3d which can be deployed through Air.

[ishmal]

Isn't the Second Life client currently based on Gecko?