After Apple created the Canvas element, the Mozilla Foundation began working on a Canvas 3D prototype in 2006, and by 2007, there were implementations of this early version, which would eventually become WebGL. In 2009, a consortium called the Kronos Group began a WebGL Working Group. By 2011, this group had produced the 1.0 version of WebGL, which is based on the OpenGL ES 2.0 API.
As I stated earlier, WebGL was seen as a 3D rendering API that would be used with the HTML5 Canvas element. Its implementation eliminates some of the rendering bottlenecks of the traditional 2D canvas API and gives near-direct access to the computer's GPU. Because of this, it is typically faster to use WebGL to render 2D images to the HTML5 canvas than it is to use the original 2D canvas implementation. However, WebGL is significantly more complicated to use due to the added...
