[X3D-Public] Adobe At it Again

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Mon, 12/7/10, John Carlson <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Received: Monday, 12 July, 2010, 8:47 AM
> It looks like all the vendors are
> actively pursuing hardware/graphics acceleration for the
> browsers.  I'm not sure why this wasn't done from the
> beginning--perhaps there wasn't a strong standard.
>

openGL was the only standard before 1997, but was only on Silicon Graphics's computer (or clones)
DirectX was a software upgrade for windows 95 (nearly failed)
there was also the glide API for Voodoo cards

for more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

tom