XDC2012: OpenGL futures [LWN.net]

XDC2012: OpenGL futures

Posted Oct 12, 2012 7:28 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: XDC2012: OpenGL futures by raven667
Parent article: XDC2012: OpenGL futures

> They can be two different protocols, the protocol for talking to a local display doesn't have to be the same protocol for remoting they are different use cases with different requirements.

This would be a regression compared to X.
If an application needs to do local rendering then it can renders its images however it likes: I don't see the need to blend this requirement into the display protocol.

As for WebGL, it is a toy until it can be made reasonably secure.

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XDC2012: OpenGL futures

Posted Oct 12, 2012 15:44 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

As for WebGL, it is a toy until it can be made reasonably secure.

It's the other way around: nobody will bother to make it reasonably secure till it's more than a toy. You may claim that it's totally wrong way to build "anything secure", but this is how things are done in real world.