Mozilla announced this week that it has been working with producer Epic Games, maker of the Unreal Engine for game development (UDK). The joint effort has enabled UDK-built games to run inside a web browser. The effort leverages the asm.js JavaScript library as well as the open source emscripten cross compiler.
The engagement with Epic Games is a non-commercial effort for Mozilla. Vladimir Vukicevic, Engineering Director at Firefox and inventor of WebGL,stressed that his team focuses on emscriptem. The benefit to Mozilla is that it gets real-world test cases for the tool and the power of JavaScript for the web.
“We’re out to support the web for the user,” Mozilla CTO, Brendan Eich said.
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