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.

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

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.

WebGL or Web Graphics Library is nothing but a JavaScript API which helps it in rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics on any supporting web browser without any third party plugins being used.

Amazon also supports OTOY’s ORBX.js on these GPU instances. This is a downloadable HD codec written in JavaScript and WebGL that allows you to stream 3D-intensive applications right from the ...