Covering Safari and edge, almost all mainstream browsers have realized webgl 2.0 support

from Firefox To Safari, All mainstream browsers now support WebGL 2.0.

In recent days, , Industry associations that focus on developing open standards  Khronos Group Heavyweight announced that all mainstream browsers have realized the right  WebGL 2.0  Support for , Simple view , No need to use plug-ins in any compatible WebGL Interactive rendering on browsers and graphics processing units 2D and 3D graphics .

WebGL 2.0 On 2017 First released in 2004 . Compared with the previous version ,WebGL 2.0  It has achieved great improvement in graphics function , brought  OpenGL ES 3.0 Feature set , by WebGL 1.0 The graphics pipeline adds feedback to the transformation 、 Instance rendering 、 Multiple rendering targets 、 Unified buffer object 、 Occlusion query and wider texture support access .

At the time , Once the specification is launched, it is only in  Firefox and Chrome  The browser uses , Now for developers , Undoubtedly, the good news is Safari  and  Microsoft Edge  China also supports WebGL 2.0.

meanwhile ,Khronos Group  Point out in the announcement that ,Apple and Google The engineering team is working together to ANGLE （ On Browser WebGL Environmental Science ） Applied to the WebKit in , To create a common code base for development , And will Chrome Switch to use ANGLE Of Metal Back end .

Khronos Also with W3C Achieve cooperation , The latter is under development WebGPU API, It will Web Browser Introduction Direct3D 12、Metal and Vulkan Modern computer graphics functions provided .

from 2011 year 3 month ,WebGL 1.0 First release , And three years later 2014 year 9 Month got more than 80% Browser support .WebGL 2.0 Now it has reached the same utilization rate , as time goes on ,WebGL Also continues to develop .Khronos Recently, it was announced that compressed texture format can be used in all browsers , And a new multi painting extension , You can improve performance through geometric batching . The company also provides information on OES_draw_buffers_indexed Function access , To enable order independent transparency Technology . Now? ,Khronos Ongoing extended conformance testing .

Reference resources ：https://www.khronos.org/blog/webgl-2-achieves-pervasive-support-from-all-major-web-browsers