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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Are you referring to this from 2018?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/06/apple-defends-end-of-opengl-as-mac-game-developers-threaten-to-leave/">https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/06/apple-defends-end-of-opengl-as-mac-game-developers-threaten-to-leave/</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Apple is not very standards compliant.
All browsers on iOS need to use Safari as their rendering engine;
and Safari is not know for its great WebGL support.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It will just mean that the walled Apple
garden will get higher walls and keep out more people and content.
There will always be the faithful, but that will reduce in number.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Microsoft handles OpenGL by on-the-fly
converting it to DirectX. I do not see Apple undertaking that kind
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Leonard Daly</div>
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<div dir="auto">What does this mean for webgl, three.js,X3DOM and
x_ite?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Also, how does WASM affect 3D graphics APIs</div>
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<div dir="auto">John</div>
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
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LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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