In a move that might finally bring WebGL out of the “chrome experiments” and “neat widgets” world and into mainstream, Microsoft has finally caved and decided to include native WebGL support in the upcoming IE11.
In a massive about-turn, after declaring WebGL to be insecure and working on its own HTTP replacement, IE11 will support WebGL and Google’s SPDY protocol. HTML5 support is also much improved, and some much-needed interface tweaks have been deployed.
Of course, I haven’t used IE in years, but it remains one of the most popular browsers used on the internet by sheer virtue of being the default install for the world’s most popular operating system for user desktops.
via Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 will support WebGL, SPDY, but no WebRTC | ExtremeTech.
