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Re:Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API by pippy on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:24PM (#13595420)
Vulkan is a horrible choice for a web standard. Their hardware support is abysmal, the only graphics hardware that supports it was made from 2012 on wards. Even then a decent chunk of the support is experimental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

Vulkan is great, but you need to think about the cross compatibility of the web.

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Re:Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API by oblio on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:58AM (#13597113)
We're talking about a web standard. Something that will take 5+ years to be implemented fully on all platforms, and even then might still be behind feature flags.

If Vulkan took this long to adopt partially, how long do you think a new 3D + Web standard will actually take? My money's in 10 years.

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