So Opera has been working on a 3D context for the canvas element.
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Two days before Vladimir Vukićević from Mozilla said he is planning on providing a plugin for Firefox that provides a 3D drawing API for the canvas element and he demonstrated something as well. Pretty cool. Now we only need some common API that meets the requirements from both sides (or more sides, if more implementations show up).
The odd thing is that Opera’s 3D drawing API is not the same API as Mozilla’s OpenGL-based API.
At the moment the WHATWG’s HTML 5 specification does not specify anything for the 3D canvas context which is probably why Mozilla and Opera have come up with two separate APIs. Hopefully the two browsers can reconcile their differences and agree on a common 3D API. If this doesn’t happen I suspect Mozilla’s OpenGL API will become the one which wins simply as Firefox probably has about 20 times the market share of Opera.
This really isn’t about winning.
Well, if both browsers have different APIs for 3D drawing it’ll probably be the Mozilla API which gets used by developers.
Screenshots of Opera 3D Canvas.