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.

The WebGL prototypes have shown that with GPU functions exposed through the WebGL API, 3D applications can run on limited devices even with the overheads of JavaScript and the browser environment.

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

Firefox's graphics and JavaScript performance should improve with new Mozilla projects. Don't expect results by Firefox 5's June release, though.

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.

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