Re:Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
by azakai on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:12PM
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> The only amazing stuff is the distribution mechanism really.
That's the main thing, but not the only thing.
WebGL is also very portable, more than other flavors of GL. Huge effort has gone into that. As a result there is a much better chance a WebGL app will give the same output on different browsers/OSes/GPUs (and if it does not, that's a bug that should be fixed).
WebGL is also more secure than OpenGL, since it was designed to run in a web browser, that executes unsafe code off the web.
That's the main thing, but not the only thing.
WebGL is also very portable, more than other flavors of GL. Huge effort has gone into that. As a result there is a much better chance a WebGL app will give the same output on different browsers/OSes/GPUs (and if it does not, that's a bug that should be fixed).
WebGL is also more secure than OpenGL, since it was designed to run in a web browser, that executes unsafe code off the web.