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AMD releases OpenGL ES 2 drivers
GRAPHICS CHIP DESIGNER AMD has released a beta driver that offers support for the OpenGL ES standard used in HTML5 for in-browser graphics rendering.
The Catalyst 10.7 beta driver supports AMD's Radeon 2xxx/3xxx/4xxx/5xxx desktop graphics boards along with its Firepro workstation boards on Microsoft's Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems. However the company is crystal clear that it is not supporting the release as it has yet to "complete full AMD testing". As for WHQL certification, forget it.
Nevertheless, frivolities such as support and WHQL compliance have never stopped anyone from installing a set of video card drivers, but given that OpenGL ES 2 support is the only feature that AMD is trumpeting with this release it might not be worth the effort. We were unable to find an Nvidia driver that supports the OpenGL ES 2 specification but at present it's a bit of a moot point.
Though OpenGL ES 2 has been around for a few years now, HTML5 has yet to be ratified. With Apple in particular using the software to fight its war against Adobe, one can expect HTML5 to be ready for action soon.
With AMD offering up OpenGL ES 2 drivers in the near future and Nvidia likely to follow suit, web developers can start to grow in confidence that when HTML5 finally does arrive, users will be able to consume rich content without having to download plugins or bog down their CPUs. µ
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Though OpenGL ES 2 has been around for a few years now, HTML5 has yet to be ratified.
If you follow browser development, you'll see that html5 is implemented on demand by browser vendors as the various parts of it gets to a state where browser vendors agrees on the implementation (sometimes also without, like with Web SQL Database). So this will likely be available in several stable browsers within a year.