
Efficient Text Rendering
in WebGL
Benjamin Encz
13.1 Introduction
As the first plugin-free 3D rendering API for browsers, WebGL is an interesting
technology for the development of web applications. Since it is a low-level graphics
API, the basic functionality is slim, and many features need to be implemented by
the application developer. One of the missing functions is native support for text
rendering. In many applications, especially on the web, text content is an important
factor.
Being a young standard, only a few WebGL applications using text rendering
exist. Furthermore, in contrast to OpenGL, to date, hardly any extensions or libraries
for text rendering ...