Giles Thomas provides instructions for obtaining, installing and enabling WebGL in the browsers on his blog, Learning WebGL.
MineField, the development version of Mozilla FirefoxĮach of the development browsers has WebGL disabled by default, so you will need to enable the technology. WebKit, the development version of Apple Safari. The following image is rendered with our WebGL engine.īefore I continue, WebGL is still a beta technology, and is only available in the following development browsers: The ChemDoodle Web Components allow scientists to quickly build chemically relevant frontend GUIs. It is now possible to reproduce any graphical user interface (GUI) we have seen in the sciences in a platform-independent, native browser application. We have been working with WebGL for quite some time now, and it is very powerful. WebGL opens new possibilities for the Canvas element, and I quote the best explanation I’ve seen so far, “The goal of WebGL is to expose the low-level OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs through JavaScript so that they can be used to draw hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in the HTML Canvas element” ( source). A few minor issues with the 2D components have been fixed. An advanced Phong shader has been implemented in javascript/GLSL to provide quality graphics. Several visual representations are built in. 
Several prebuilt components are provided. The 3D components are in an alpha state due to the fact that the standard browsers do not yet support WebGL they are fairly stable in the development browsers.
3.0.0, February 8th, 2010: This release introduces 3D components based on WebGL technology to provide hardware accelerated 3D graphics in web browsers. ChemDoodle Web Components 2.5 works on all major browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome/Chromium. Yahoo YUI Compressor is now used to minify the libs for even faster page loads. In addition, our test driven development suite is now exposed on the site using a modified version of QUnit. Two new components have been introduced: Slideshow and Hyperlink. jQuery has been introduced to standardize the handling of user input events, simplifying the Canvas class. The API has seen some major changes (it has been significantly improved), so make sure to review it before upgrading. 2.5.0, October 8th, 2009: This release stabilizes the API and provides in-depth extendable functionality for creating your own custom components. For complete details of the changes, visit the ChemDoodle Web Component changelog. Since the last article, ChemDoodle Web Components have seen two major updates. Kevin Theisen is the President of iChemLabs, which funds, develops and hosts the open source ChemDoodle Web Components. Internet Explorer and HTML5 Browser Compatibility. 3D ChemDoodle Web Components with WebGL.
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