IE11 To Support WebGL

mikejuk writes "The biggest problem with IE10 as far as modern web apps go is its lack of WebGL support. Now we have strong evidence that IE11 will support WebGL. A leaked build of Windows 'Blue,' aka Windows 8.1, also contained an early version of IE11. Web developer François Remy decided to see what it was hiding and found that there were WebGL APIs, but they were non-functional. Rafael Rivera, who writes the Within Windows blog, dug a little deeper and discovered the registry keys that have to be changed to enable WebGL support. Apparently the API works so well that you can take existing WebGL programs (with OpenGL shaders) and just run them. As the implementation also supports DirectX HLSL shaders, it seems reasonable to guess that the implementation maps OpenGL to DirectX, thus avoiding Microsoft having to endorse OpenGL use."

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Re:IE11 is getting good!

[hairyfeet]

That ain't gonna change the fact it has a bullseye the size of Texas painted on it Hoss. Every malware writer knows that IE is the "grandma browser" and grandma is clueless so if you want your malware to last longer and infect systems where it won't be found for ages? Go after IE. The fact that it takes a seriously nasty bug to get MSFT to patch IE out of cycle just makes it that much more of a juicy target since the other guys patch the second they have a reason to.

This is why I give my customers a couple of browsers and let them choose, usually one Moz variant and one Chromium based (Now its Dragon/IceDragon but its been Pale Moon and Chromium in the past) with ABP and make it clear they are taking a risk if they choose IE, because its just too juicy a target for the bad guys. That fact that MSFT refuses to backport to their still supported OSes just seals the deal as far as I'm concerned, any company that would tie the browser, the biggest attack vector on a PC, into some scheme to try to force sales? Isn't a company i want to trust when it comes to browsers.