Hi all, a crazy idea come to my mind from what I start to read, it seems that WebGL will be more and more present in our future ...ok, now it's too early probably and works good in Google Chrome (and sometimes in Firefox), and a mandatory requirement is to have a good Graphics Board (many times there is a better board in mobile phones that in many corporate PCs).
But the idea to have GPU-accelerated GUI and effects looks very promising to me. I know that there are already some Javascript libraries, but why not ? It's not clear to me if HTML5 Canvas should be enough, but from what I read probably not ... but this not the core of the question, if we could have 3D graphics with realtime effects, compositing, etc why not think big ? 2D graphics could be rendered as textures, or simply used as compositing planes/layers. Assuming that it makes sense for the market of Pivot applications. But for example I'm thinking on new ways to explore data in interactive way, etc ... I come from a 3D Graphics background, so could be my vision of things. The hard part here could be to leave open a way for applications developers to write their "visual" skin. Someone has already started to playing with some of them ? For a long-term perspective ... a Pivot backend for WebGL (for what is possible, but I think could be a great thing for the future) ... what do you think ? Note that in this way we could solve even the portability on Mobile platforms, and even try to work outside the JVM. But please no flame wars, just to know if there is some interes on this ... and if yes I could open a shared project on apache-extras so we can together start to work on it. Identifying what can be reused from Pivot (maybe all the BXML Stuff and many other things). Note: I'm inside the Pivot project since its beginning in Open Source, so I'm not crazy to write/ask comments on this, I only think that things are evolving, so sometimes an idea could be interesting to explore in a long-term perspective ... at least to say "no, it doesn't interest me". Bye, Sandro
