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Re:Chrome Cube Lab by SEJeff on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:12AM (#7767796)
Not really. They are based on open standards that use functionality that happens to be faster under V8 (chrome's javascript engine).

In fact, this uses threejs[1] under the hood. It is just that the version of Firefox someone is using sucks in comparison to Chrome for the three.js stuff (likely WebGL).

[1] http://threejs.org/

Re:Chrome Cube Lab by Pacabel on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:20AM (#7767841)
In practice, an "open standard" that has only been suitably implemented by just one party really isn't all that open.

Now, maybe there's a greater chance that the situation will change, and other suitable implementations will eventually arise. But until that happens, an open standard with one usable implementation really isn't different from a closed standard at all.

Re:Chrome Cube Lab by SEJeff on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:32AM (#7767912)
I would counter that and say, "An 'Open Standard' created and then implemented by 1 party is no different than a closed standard".

However, Khronos[1], the entity that makes opengl, also made the webgl standard. The fact that mozilla hasn't done as good of a job implementing it as google has doesn't magically negate the fact that it is still an open standard (that mozilla has actually implemented, just poorly).

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/