A leaked build of Microsoft's next browser shows signs that the company could be reversing its opposition to a standard for accelerated 2D and 3D graphics on the Web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

WebGL graphics is a highlight of the new alpha build of Opera, but the browser also can accelerate 2D graphics, text, and CSS effects--often on Windows XP. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

March 11, 2010 – San Francisco, GDC 2010 – The Khronos™ Group today announced the release of the OpenGL® 4.0 specification; a significant update to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API ...

OSLO, Norway--Opera Software took the hardware acceleration plunge today with the release of its first alpha version of Opera 12, code-named Wahoo. Hardware acceleration offers a range of benefits to ...

Yesterday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Khronos Group released the final WebGL 1.0 specification, marking a significant milestone in the world of web development. This new ...

Google's campaign to make web apps perform as well as desktop apps hit a roadblock this week when Microsoft and Apple separately dismissed an emerging specification to render 3D web graphics using ...

The second day of Google I/O has kicked off with a keynote focused on Chrome. After highlighting some impressive milestones for Chrome over the past year, which more than doubled in user base from 70 ...

Since November of last year, one of Microsoft's big themes for Internet Explorer 9 has been "graphics hardware acceleration" using Windows DirectX. Just last week, Mozilla's Firefox 4 beta turned on ...

The Khronos Group, the same industry consortium that on Monday released the OpenGL 3.2 specification, on Tuesday announced WebGL, a new initiative that its proponents hope will drive a standard for ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Since November of last year, one of Microsoft's big themes ...