3D on 2D HTML Canvas

Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by prospero on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @04:13PM (#486273)

V8 isn't hardware accelerated, and probably won't ever be. That won't matter in every case, but there will always be situations in which V8 is not a valid substitute for Flash or Silverlight.

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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by anewaccountname on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @11:32PM (#486741)

If V8 gets threading support and auto-vectorization, then if processors-graphics cards ala Intel's Larrabee take off, it may be a non-issue. Developers can just do a 3d engine in pure javascript and get roughly the same order of magnitude of performance as a GPU.

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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by prospero on Thursday February 19, 2009 @12:41PM (#487546)

All true, but that's a lot of ifs.

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