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.

Fundamentally, WebGL now allows full (Turing Complete) programs from the internet to reach the graphics driver and graphics hardware which operate in what is supposed to be the most protected part of ...

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.

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'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.

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 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 ...

Firefox With WebGL Brings Powerful 3-D Graphics to the Web Mozilla is making progress in its effort to supply developers with open-source tools for creating better 3-D animations on the web.

The entire documentary is rendered using WebGL graphics, audio and and photographs of the buildings in question. One Millionth Tower makes specific use of a Javascript tool called Popcorn, which ...

WebGL, or Web Graphics Library, was originally fostered by Mozilla as a browser plug-in substitute for rendering two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics. It's a JavaScript API based on HTML5's ...