Vladimir Vukićević

Vladimir Vukićević (born 29 April 1979), is a Serbian-born American Software Engineer who has worked on many open source projects. He is known mostly for his work on open-source graphics libraries, including those used in the Mozilla project.

For the Norwegian hurdler, see Vladimir Vukicevic (athlete).
Vladimir Vukićević
Vukićević at the 2010 Mozilla Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Born (1979-04-29) 29 April 1979
OccupationComputer Science
Known forMajor technological contributions to the Mozilla Firefox web browser, WebGL

Career
Vukićević at the 2013 Mozilla Summit

In 2006, Vukićević began work on a prototype OpenGL 3D context for the canvas HTML element, which he called Canvas 3D.[1] This work led to the creation of a "Accelerated 3D on the Web" working group within the Khronos Group in order to create a royalty-free standard API for OpenGL and OpenGL ES 2.0 capabilities,[2] which produced the WebGL specification.

In 2008, Vukićević publicly criticized Apple for using private interfaces in the Safari web browser to improve its performance, leaving third-party applications such as Firefox without solutions for similar performance problems.[3]

Vukićević made many important contributions to Firefox Mobile/Fennec, including an ARM backend for the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine[4] and the initial port of Fennec to Android.[5]

Vukićević also co-authored (with Stuart Parmenter) the APNG specification in 2004.

Vukićević served as the chair of the Khronos WebGL Working Group,[6] and has worked as Director of Engineering for Mozilla until 2017.[7]

He now works as Senior Software Engineer for Emerging Technologies at Unity Technologies.[8]

gollark: Less vaguely, laptops/desktops or other discrete computer-type things will begin to (continue to, actually?) decline as people begin using phones with better dockable IO.
gollark: More vague predictions: computers will generally get faster, but also half the computing power will end up wasted on increasingly flashy animations, poorly programmed applications, and other random nonsense like that.
gollark: Okay, no response right now.
gollark: ?remind 5y "hello future"
gollark: I may or may not have *a* closed timelike curve, but you can only send information that way.

References
  1. ""Canvas 3D GL Power, Web Style", Vladimir Vukićević — Words". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
  2. "Khronos launches initiative for free standard for accelerated 3D on Web", Khronos Press Release, Archived 2011-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Broersma, Matthew (3 March 2008). "Apple slammed over programming secrets". Techworld.com. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  4. Gruener, Wolfgang (19 September 2008). "Firefox mobile web browser scheduled for 2010". TG Daily. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  5. Claburn, Thomas (29 April 2010). "Mozilla Tests Mobile Firefox For Android". InformationWeek. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  6. "Khronos Releases Final WebGL 1.0 Specification". Khronos Group. Archived from the original on 6 March 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  7. Vukićević, Vladimir. "Games Meeting Cancelled". Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  8. Vukićević, Vladimir. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn.

Vladimir Vukićević on Twitter

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