IE11 and All Those WebGL Rumors
There’s been a lot of buzz over whether WebGL might be supported in the Internet Explorer 11 that is due out with Windows 8 “Blue.” The Within Windows blog reports that WebGL is incomplete now, but “is coming and can be enabled for experimentation.” And there are some initial instructions for how to do it.
Microsoft has resisted supporting WebGL in Internet Explorer in any previous iteration, citing risk involved in directly exposing hardware functionality. They also pointed to WebGL as an “ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities.” In June 2011, Microsoft concluded that, “in its current form, WebGL is not a technology that Microsoft can endorse from a security perspective.”
It would appear that the perception has now changed.
The company has gone on record saying WebGL would be supported only when it could be implemented in a way that is “secure by design, secure by default, and secure in deployment.”
Could this be the moment? What do you think?
