Comments on: End of the Desktop? Google Backs WebGL http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: rogeroberholtzer http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8263 rogeroberholtzer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8263 <p>How will apps/people deal with network congestion and server overload? Especially in a game where time matters. These aspects of the scenario are outside the control of HTML5 and all. Perhaps this will work for people with all-the-time network connections.</p> <p>Still, I agree it is a neat thing. And nice that it not so proprietary a solution.</p> <p>--<br /> Roger Oberholtzer </p> How will apps/people deal with network congestion and server overload? Especially in a game where time matters. These aspects of the scenario are outside the control of HTML5 and all. Perhaps this will work for people with all-the-time network connections.

Still, I agree it is a neat thing. And nice that it not so proprietary a solution.

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Roger Oberholtzer

]]> By: paron http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8264 paron Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8264 <blockquote><p>\"If you look at all the love Google is giving developers — APIs to work with Google Apps, WebGL/ANGLE, and plenty of other goodies, it’s clear that Google is reaching way beyond standard Web development and trying to reach desktop developers and ISVs to put apps in the browser where Google rules the roost.\" </p></blockquote> <p>No, Microsoft is giving developers the love. Has Eric Schmidt leapt around a stage in a lardish sweat trying to get a bunch of M$ Office sales people to chant, \"developers, developers, developers?\" I don\'t think so. Where do you people get these ideas? </p>

\”If you look at all the love Google is giving developers — APIs to work with Google Apps, WebGL/ANGLE, and plenty of other goodies, it’s clear that Google is reaching way beyond standard Web development and trying to reach desktop developers and ISVs to put apps in the browser where Google rules the roost.\”

No, Microsoft is giving developers the love. Has Eric Schmidt leapt around a stage in a lardish sweat trying to get a bunch of M$ Office sales people to chant, \”developers, developers, developers?\” I don\’t think so. Where do you people get these ideas?

]]> By: owensmk http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8265 owensmk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8265 <p>This stuff is so funny. I\'m still waiting for the Web 2.0 \"MS Office\" killer in AJAX -- remember that one? </p> This stuff is so funny. I\’m still waiting for the Web 2.0 \”MS Office\” killer in AJAX — remember that one?

]]> By: mdulcey http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8266 mdulcey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8266 <p>To be fair to Windows, although Windows itself doesn\'t include OpenGL drivers, anybody with an ATI or NVidia video card or integrated video and current drivers from the manufacturer will -- OpenGL is included in the video driver. I don\'t know whether the drivers for the Intel integrated graphics include OpenGL capability. </p> To be fair to Windows, although Windows itself doesn\’t include OpenGL drivers, anybody with an ATI or NVidia video card or integrated video and current drivers from the manufacturer will — OpenGL is included in the video driver. I don\’t know whether the drivers for the Intel integrated graphics include OpenGL capability.

]]> By: jzb http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8267 jzb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8267 <p>@paron - Schmidt is still gorging himself trying to get into fighting weight... </p> @paron – Schmidt is still gorging himself trying to get into fighting weight…

]]> By: jsf80238 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8268 jsf80238 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7764/#comment-8268 <p>Nicely written, Joe. </p> Nicely written, Joe.

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