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[casachit]

To add to JoWa's comment.

This is what the Ars Technica article states:
So the problem is not just with Web GL but is also very likely to arise with its Micrsoft cousin Direct X. At the referred Microsoft blog post we read that user and OEM's are not used to regularly updating their drivers:
This gives the world a clear marching order similar to the one that made everybody realise that an AV and firewall are important prerequisites for a secure web experience: keep your graphics drivers up to date. And this may make OEM computers a couple bucks more expensive.

AMD already took the lead by enabling update checks in their Catalyst graphics drivers.

Hardware is already moving towards integration of CPU and GPU so Microsoft can only stall this but so much in the mid to long term run.

Good explanation EricJh 

[JoWa]

I really don't get why a browser needs 3D capabilities in the first place. I don't think anybody "needs" WebGL.

Then you have not yet discovered the possibilities of the modern web. Accelerated graphics is essential for many applications on the web. Even Microsoft admits that, but they prefer to only support their own closed and Windows-exclusive DirectX. Frankly, such solutions have no place at all on the open web. They weaken the web as a platform.

And WebGL is not only about games. Here is a cool use of WebGL (and other modern techniques): http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

Another example is MapsGL.

[EricJH]

Updating the graphics drivers is not always possible if you have older hardware. Many people with "legacy" AMD/ATI cards that can not use the newer drivers are having to abandon Firefox because of graphics issues.

As stated

This gives the world a clear marching order similar to the one that made everybody realise that an AV and firewall are important prerequisites for a secure web experience: keep your graphics drivers up to date. And this may make OEM computers a couple bucks more expensive.

I really don't get why a browser needs 3D capabilities in the first place. I don't think anybody "needs" WebGL.

Let me quote the word famous statement that Bill Gates never made is a nice analogy about " needs" here:

640K ought to be enough for anybody

Why Microsoft and Internet Explorer need WebGL (and vice-versa)

That was an interesting read. The writer made a good point comparing Open GL with the apparent more dangerous Active X technology and how that dangerous technology, as stated by Microsoft its self, gets managed to be used in the hostile web environment.

[Litster25]

468+9 on Dragon =)

[siegfried]

473+9 (Dragon portable 26.0.2.0)   

[Mrarnold.]

I get 468 +9 bonus points.
Comodo dragon 26.0.2.0

[siegfried]

Very strange. I tried again: 473+9 (Dragon portable 26.0.2.0):

[sAyer]

I really don't get why a browser needs 3D capabilities in the first place. I don't think anybody "needs" WebGL.

http://www.howtogeek.com/141625/10-things-you-didnt-know-your-web-browser-could-do-yet/


I get 393 +10 bonus with Firefox 19.0.2

Looks like Chromium based leads the pack for now. 

[Nemesis31]

Hello, my results

Firefox 20.0 : 394 and 10 bonus points

CD 26.0.2.0 : 468 and 9 bonus points

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