There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
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There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
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Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#2Wild speculation: iOS 8 will bring an out-of-process, heavily sandboxed webview, which was the missing piece for enabling webgl for everyone. The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views - explains why webgl was only enabled for iAds (since those would be vetted by a review team)
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#3If Safari gets WebGL, combined with the new FTL JIT it could end up being pretty darn awesome for gaming.
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#4Wild speculation: iOS 8 will bring an out-of-process, heavily sandboxed webview, which was the missing piece for enabling webgl for everyone. The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views - explains why webgl was only enabled for iAds (since those would be vetted by a review team)
Going along with your plausible speculation, and assuming XPC is used to communicate with the WebGL view (using UIRemoteView maybe), hopefully that means opening up the XPCKit framework as well in iOS 8.
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#5Wild speculation: iOS 8 will bring an out-of-process, heavily sandboxed webview, which was the missing piece for enabling webgl for everyone. The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views - explains why webgl was only enabled for iAds (since those would be vetted by a review team)
Would be nice to get something similar for in-app JavaScript JIT'ing.
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#6Ah the heady days of spring and summer speculations.
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#7And for those already wanting to experiment with WebGL on iOS there's always http://impactjs.com/ejecta – which will likely still be preferable for packaged games even if embedded webviews will start supporting WebGL as it will still have less overhead than the webview.
Re: There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
#8Wild speculation: iOS 8 will bring an out-of-process, heavily sandboxed webview, which was the missing piece for enabling webgl for everyone. The greatly increased attack surface (with almost direct gpu access via shaders etc) was too risky to host in in-process web views - explains why webgl was only enabled for iAds (since those would be vetted by a review team)
I wonder if Firefox will remain the only browser out there without a process sandbox. It's still the most vulnerable browser because of that:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/178587-firefox-is-still...
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#10This sounds like convincing to me, well somewhere around 75% convincing. :)
This will signal the true start of the WebGL era, because the lack of WebGL on iOS has been a real buzz kill for commercial adoption of WebGL outside of pure enthusiastic circles -- I know this first hand unfortunately in trying to do B2B deals with http://Clara.io's interactive embed technology -- it is nearly impossible to sell to major clients once they realize that it doesn't work on iOS: