Ugh: 'we developed a patent-pending solution called “ZyGL”.'
While there are a bunch of people working to make stuff performant on browsers, Zynga comes in from behind and starts patenting barely-novel stuff on top of it.
If the emscripten lot had decided to patent "Method to reconstruct flow structures from binary machine code" then Zynga would not have the privilege of porting their game to the web in the first place.
Actually, that's not the relevant patent. That patent is for a technique for hardware-accelerated 2D animations using 3D meshes on the GPU, and was used for the game Dream Zoo.
Hopefully they will be able to extend and extinguish as well, so that the so called "open web" (that is actually pretty much closed to different languages and technologies, unless you are willing to use crap-trans-pilation crutch like Emscripten) or at least WebGL will die as it should. All the best to Zynga!
If the emscripten lot had decided to patent "Method to reconstruct flow structures from binary machine code" then Zynga would not have the privilege of porting their game to the web in the first place.