Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist for Opera, looks at
some nifty new browser technologies that are not part of HTML5,
including WebGL and SVG Recently, Rich Clark, my fellow HTML5
Doctor, took you on a short tour of HTML5 APIs and, before
signing off, pointed you towards a bewildering page called The
Web platform: Browser technologies containing two long columns
of small text saying scary things like
"window.crypto.getRandomValues" and "DOM mutation observers".
Don't worry, we're not going to look at all of those: some are
so far from being finalised that it'll be a while before we see
them in browsers. But some are already in browsers near you, or
coming soon. People will call them "HTML5". They're not. But
they are NEWT (New Exciting Web Technologies) that you should be
keeping half an eye on. WebGL stands for Web-based Graphics
Library, and is managed by the non-profit Khronos Group. It's
used in conjunction with the HTML5 <canvas> element to produce
3D graphics. Nevertheless, there are resources