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WebGL Security - Kill it before it grows?

Posted by Jon Peddie on June 29th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Content Creation, Mobile
Tags: 3d khronos opengl microsoft security shaders webgl browsers context

When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few bumps in the road in WebGL’s journey to pervasiveness. Last week we were told by Microsoft, the developers of Silverlight, that WebGL is a giant piss-hole into which any yahoo can pour viruses, spoofs, and even DoS attacks - ack! The sky is falling run run run. In a post by James…