An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Apple's WebKit HTML rendering engine has gained experimental support for WebGL, an emerging standard that aims to bring native 3D graphics to the Web. The WebGL implementation has landed in the WebKit ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

With the release of Firefox 4 Mozilla gave a notable performance boost to its popular browser, but there's still some way to go before taking the speed crown from its rivals. With a new development ...

The big picture: WebGL brought GPU-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Now, a new API is being explicitly designed to take web graphics to the next level, with advanced features taken directly from ...