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Today's highly integrated chip-sets,
like Broadcom's 7346 or ST Microelectronics 7108
provide you with a powerful graphic processing unit,
which is often based on a 3D core.
A graphical user interface, implemented with HTML5 and CSS3,
can be realized on platforms based on such chip-sets.
The user interface is then rendered by a web browser, like WebKit or Opera.
Unfortunately the resulting web applications often lack in graphical performance.
WebGL, the interface between OpenGL and a browser, can solve that problem.
To give you an idea of the enormous difference, we implemented a prototype
which compares an HTML5 and a WebGL application.
Both applications run on our partner Albis Technologies' set-top box STB-9090
as well as on Broadcom's reference board.
Compared to the HTML5 application,
the WebGL prototype scrolls much faster and produces smooth animations.
Thank you for watching!