Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Aug 29 09:14:52 CDT 2012
Firefox 15 is now out. In this version it has focused on making the product the best game browser. Quote: " To that end, Firefox 15 brings a number of improvements to the browser's support for WebGL, the open standard for 3D on the web. In particular, the new release adds support for compressed textures, which make better use of graphics card memory, allowing developers to use higher-resolution textures in their games. Firefox 15 also adds support for new high-resolution timing APIs, which Mozilla says give developers control over their interactive content down to the thousandths of milliseconds. The result of these efforts is that it is now becoming possible to run advanced 3D games entirely within a Firefox browser window, using only HTML, WebGL, and JavaScript. To prove it, Mozilla developers have created a demo first-person shooter game... " See the video of the demo game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIYmxPdtsl4&feature=player_embedded Jim