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Simply amazing. It is so smooth in chrome 10 on win7. Too bad that we have to worry about MS and IE not supporting it. Maybe there will be a plugin, but that d

Simply amazing. It is so smooth in chrome 10 on win7. Too bad that we have to worry about MS and IE not supporting it. Maybe there will be a plugin, but that defeats the purpose.

TillE 16y ago
> Maybe there will be a plugin, but that defeats the purpose. Well, what's wrong with a plugin? There's some great stuff written in Unity, which runs on every browser for Windows and Mac, with Linux support coming in the nearish future. And frankly, it looks and performs much much better than anything I've seen in WebGL. http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2011/03/browser_game_pick_begone_nplay.html http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2011/03/browser_game_pick_beg...
simonw 16y ago
Google Chrome Frame fits the bill there.
- emehrkay 16y ago
  What will most likely happen is that MS will release web direct x and we'll begin to see a bunch of libraries (a lot like the js ones) that create a common interface for advanced graphics in a browser.
dstein 16y ago
Too bad that we have to worry about MS and IE not supporting it. It is long past the time for the web development community to abandon this mentality. Look at how fast the web has progressed without Microsoft. Once WebGL is available in tablets (and I guarantee you they will), then you'll have a huge audience capable of playing these games.
- emehrkay 16y ago
  I agree, I personally feel that as web devs with four other major browers that basically follow the same standards, we should spend our time targeting them. But to simply ignore the MS/IE user base is pure ignorance. I had a hand in porting a chrome-only app (embark.delta.com) over to all browsers and we had to remove all of the "cool" advances just to get it to work with ie9. Bottom line is that the combo of MS/IE still, and will for a while, retard the progression that is being made. As long as IE is player, we'll have to say "fuck, but what about IE?" when we see cool new advances. This is why I am happy about the mobile browser landscape
- JoelSutherland 16y ago
  Additionally it doesn't make sense in the case of games. What is the alternative here? Make it a downloadable exe? If they can download a game, they can download Chrome. The attitude only makes sense in the case of content, when a less stylish webpage is a viable alternative.
  - MatthewPhillips 16y ago
    Or you can just add a few lines of javascript and have Chrome Frame install in IE. Users will think they're installing the game itself.

Simply amazing. It is so smooth in chrome 10 on win7. Too bad that we have to worry about MS and IE not supporting it. Maybe there will be a plugin, but that defeats the purpose.

TillE 16y ago

> Maybe there will be a plugin, but that defeats the purpose. Well, what's wrong with a plugin? There's some great stuff written in Unity, which runs on every browser for Windows and Mac, with Linux support coming in the nearish future. And frankly, it looks and performs much much better than anything I've seen in WebGL. http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2011/03/browser_game_pick_begone_nplay.html http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2011/03/browser_game_pick_beg...

simonw 16y ago

Google Chrome Frame fits the bill there.

emehrkay 16y ago
What will most likely happen is that MS will release web direct x and we'll begin to see a bunch of libraries (a lot like the js ones) that create a common interface for advanced graphics in a browser.

dstein 16y ago

Too bad that we have to worry about MS and IE not supporting it. It is long past the time for the web development community to abandon this mentality. Look at how fast the web has progressed without Microsoft. Once WebGL is available in tablets (and I guarantee you they will), then you'll have a huge audience capable of playing these games.

emehrkay 16y ago
I agree, I personally feel that as web devs with four other major browers that basically follow the same standards, we should spend our time targeting them. But to simply ignore the MS/IE user base is pure ignorance. I had a hand in porting a chrome-only app (embark.delta.com) over to all browsers and we had to remove all of the "cool" advances just to get it to work with ie9. Bottom line is that the combo of MS/IE still, and will for a while, retard the progression that is being made. As long as IE is player, we'll have to say "fuck, but what about IE?" when we see cool new advances. This is why I am happy about the mobile browser landscape
JoelSutherland 16y ago
Additionally it doesn't make sense in the case of games. What is the alternative here? Make it a downloadable exe? If they can download a game, they can download Chrome. The attitude only makes sense in the case of content, when a less stylish webpage is a viable alternative.
- MatthewPhillips 16y ago
  Or you can just add a few lines of javascript and have Chrome Frame install in IE. Users will think they're installing the game itself.