WebGL APIs enable a browser to load and render 2D and 3D graphics on a web page. Learn here how to enable WebGL on Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox.

The WebGL graphics technology turned on by default in Firefox and Chrome poses a serious security risk and IT managers should consider disabling it, a security consultancy has recommended.

Microsoft is warning users that WebGL graphics technology poses security risks, based on work by Context Information Security and its own security research team.

Google's O3D browser plug-in for accelerated 3D graphics on the Web shows no signs of life. But a similar idea, rebuilt with standard technology, looks to be its replacement.

Microsoft announced this week that some of its technology used for WebGL graphics rendering in its Microsoft Edge browser is being released as open source code in the GitHub repository.

Google Chrome allows you to alter the settings according to your preferences, one of them is the option to enable WebGL, or Web Graphics Library. WebGL is a JavaScript API that allows you to render 3D ...

Context Information Security, which identified a flaw in the new WebGL 3D graphics standards that exposes Firefox and Chrome browsers to hackers, said that a fix proposed by vendor Khronos Group does ...

In another step in the company's open source initiate, Microsoft last week has made some of its tech used for WebGL graphics rendering in its Microsoft Edge browser available in the GitHub repository.

The WebGL standardization effort first emerged last year when a Mozilla developer built a proof-of-concept Firefox plugin that demonstrated 3D graphics in the browser.

WebGL is designed to offer 3D and high-res graphics. Could it be that Microsoft simply wants developers to write to IE 9's HTML 5 or SilverLight?

The WebGL working group includes companies like AMD and Nvidia — the two main supplier of graphics chips for personal computer and video game consoles — along with Google, Mozilla, Ericsson ...