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Caution: only open with recent browser on recent OS. On my mac, this crashed OS X in the most violent way I've ever seen (not just the browser: a full kernel pa

• exDM69 11y ago
  I've had some kernel panics from WebGL content too (acko's mathbox2, as well as normal OpenGL apps) on Linux w/ nouveau open source drivers. I changed to proprietary drivers which seem to work better. Having the latest version of browser/os is no guarantee that it works.
  • blue1 11y ago
    Isn't a bit scary that some web content is able to crash the whole system? Feels a bit like the old "Guru Meditation" times to me
    • JonnieCache 11y ago
      This is why microsoft objected to webgl. It has security implications too. http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons... They chose to support it in ie11 though.
      • greggman 11y ago
        Not, it's not why they objected, since they had already exposed the same features in Silverlight. The ability to hang your machine only requires the ability to ask the GPU to do lots of work. No shaders required. Even given an API that only allowed you to submit meshes you'd just build a mesh of layered polygons and zoom in to fill the screen. There's no way to limit such an API and still have it be useful. Fortunately as pointed out then and above there's no incentive to crash your machine. Baddies get no info, no access, all they get is no one coming back to their site.
• option_greek 11y ago
  Seems perfect on Firefox/Win7 though (even on full screen) :)