There are a lot of developments going on to bring us a richer, more capable Internet experience.
Amongst these is a new graphics format Google has developed, WebGL. This is being showcased in Google Labs in their “Body Browser” which is a fabulous education and exploration tool.
Ever injured yourself exercising and wondered what exactly was that muscle?
Typically, the new format is at this point in time only supported in Chrome and in Firefox version 4.0 browsers.
That’s the problem in every case with developments such as this. The ordinary website can’t use them until the vast majority of visitors have browsers in which they will work. Or your website will have to detect what browser is being used and serve up an alternate version.
Internet Explorer is the main issue. Because of its huge market share, Microsoft’s slowness in implementation, and IE users’ slowness to upgrade, this currently means about a 3 year lag on new technologies.
Hopefully that will speed up.
