WebGL API offers hardware-accelerated graphics without the need for additional software Google has moved to a beta phase with its WebGL 3D graphics API for JavaScript, the company said on Thursday.

Enabling the 3D capabilities on the desktop would go a long way towards generating interest in making Apple's currently-proprietary CSS extensions into a de facto, or even official, web standard.

WebGPU is a new API written in JavaScript that aims to provide "modern 3D graphics and computation capabilities" to web browsers.

Project Azure, as it is known, focuses on the creation of a new 2D graphics API for Firefox that's "significantly closer to Direct2D" as well as new 3D backends for drawing content in an ...