Apple presented a gift to web developers: the new edition of the operating system got native support for standards WebGL and IndexedDB, thanks to which sites in Safari have become much more functional. Technology features two open web resource with online demonstration shooter Quake III and Doom III .
Safari can now use WebGL standard for hardware accelerated 3D-graphics and IndexedDB standard for local storage in the user's browser, which can be used even without an Internet connection. First - great news for web games, the second - for mail, word processing and blogerskogo tools when you do not lose data with the loss of communication.
WebGL and IndexedDB - an important component of the dynamic Web that is not simply keep the documents and provides a rich interactive features. With their help, you can create sites, approaching the functionality to native applications, while working on any mobile device with a modern browser.
According to Brandon Jones, who created simulators Quake III and Doom III on the Web, WebGL and IndexedDB opening virtually unlimited possibilities for games and web applications.