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astrodust
on June 20, 2012
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If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specificatio...
If you were porting GL-based screensavers that were written a decade ago you'd probably be feeling the same way. You don't want to rewrite code that already works on an earlier version of the spec.
TazeTSchnitzel
on June 20, 2012
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What earlier version? GL ES is NOT GL.
astrodust
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That's why it's bothering a lot of people that it has "GL" in the name at all.
TazeTSchnitzel
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Why? It's basically a subset of GL, what's wrong with that? It's a bit like complaining that XHTML Basic profile is incompatible with the full XHTML.
astrodust
on June 21, 2012
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In a fashion, OpenGL ES is about as OpenGL as C# is C.
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