- W Apple today proposed a new Community Group to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the web. So posted also in a post on his WebKit blog, where Dean Jackson wrote about the company's proposal to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU functions. GPUs on the Web would be the name chosen to refer to this proposal.
Taking this into account, we can only wait for them to announce something new in the medium-term future, either software or hardware. In fact, Apple invites web browser engineers, GPU vendors, software developers, and the web community - that is, anyone with a say in regards to - to join them. improve the graphics that we can find on the different websites worldwide.
GPU on the Web aims to improve internet graphics
Apple's WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the web and develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and purpose-built computing. general.
The W3C Community Groups will allow everyone to participate freely and we invite web browser engineers, GPU hardware vendors, software developers, and the web community to join us.
The WebGPU standard proposed by Apple is much more object-oriented than WebGL. Apple's standard has been compared to "Metal on the web" by some community developer.
Wow didn't see that coming. WebGPU proposal, which seems to basically be Metal for the web. https://t.co/mdQjjNu8YT
- Aras Pranckevičius (@aras_p) February 8, 2017
According to Apple, WebGPU allows developers create and store objects that represent states while allowing objects to process a larger set of commands. This reduces the work required during the drawing operation.
Rather than setting a state before each drawing operation, WebGPU lets you create and store objects that represent states, along with objects that can process a group of commands. In this way, we can do an initial validation when creating the states, reducing the work we need to do during a drawing operation.
Apple says GPU on the Web will be open to all community groups W3C, GPU vendors, software developers and the entire web community, so we can think that the intention of those from Cupertino is to improve the image of what we see online regardless of whether we use a Mac, a PC or any mobile device which can only be good news.