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Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta
- bsenftner 14y agoI hope this pressures Apple to support WebGL in iOS Safari.
- randomfool 14y agoI believe that they are waiting for arb_robustness. http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt
- MayorOfMonkeys 14y agoFascinating. Thanks for sharing the link to that extension. What makes you say Apple are waiting on this extension? I hadn't heard that before myself.
- kevingadd 14y agoHow can Apple be waiting for a spec that was approved in 2010 when Apple writes and maintains their own GL implementations on all their platforms?
- ljf 14y agoJust been playing with the Quake 3 demo on my Nexus 4 and it looks stunning - really excited to see where this takes mobile casual games.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoFirefox for Android already supports WebGL - seems to work fine on my Galaxy Nexus.
- patrickaljord 14y agoI never got it working more than a few seconds without it crashing the whole browser.
- stuaxo 14y agoIt's about time, I remember seeing Sony doing webgl on their experia android phones a while back http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/01/25/webgl-implementation-for-xperia-phones-released-as-open-source/ http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/01/25/webgl-implementat...
- dave1010uk 14y agoAlso, the Nokia N900's browser supported WebGL in 2009. http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/nokia-n900-impressively-demos-webgl-3d-graphics/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/nokia-n900-impressively-d...
- nextparadigms 14y agoWell I wouldn't to see in Nokia's devices anymore anytime. Also these have all been just experiments. Even Apple has implemented part of WebGl in the iOS browser I think. But if Chrome beta has it, then the next stable version should have it, too.
- otibom 14y agoWhen is Chrome officially replacing the Android browser ?
- josteink 14y agoHopefully after they've fixed the woeful performance which is plaguing it.
- nextparadigms 14y agoIt already has with Android 4.1. But manufacturers might keep customizing the previous open source browser instead, for the time being at least.
- nodata 14y agoAre you sure? When I use the Google search widget to find something, the browser it gives me doesn't seem to be Chrome.
- justincormack 14y agoAs soon as you click a link it goes into Chrome on mine.
- nodata 14y agoIf you hold press a link, do you get an option to open in a new tab?
- justincormack 14y agoNo. The actual results screen does appear to be a custom odd thing, and you cant see tabs until you click.
- nodata 14y agoI find this annoying - it's on search result pages that I am very likely to want to open lots of tabs. Ugh.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoIt's got noticeably better performance than Firefox for Android (on a N7, using [0] as a "benchmark"); but Chrome doesn't seem to have audio support. EDIT: hm, Chrome doesn't seem to want to grab the audio at all; on both the pages I've tried, the audio downloads just hang as "Pending" in the inspector [1] [2] [0] http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle [1] http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW [2] http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD
- kayoone 14y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6js5K08m3g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6js5K08m3g Didnt realize that WebGL already is on such a good performance level on mobile devices, impressive and exciting!
- jamesmiller5 14y agoA really cool set of WebGL shader demos that also work. http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/ http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/
- azakai 14y agoThe HN title is misleading. It is still not enabled by default, it just got easier to manually switch on, so it wasn't "added". Still, this is good progress.
- coopaq 14y agochrome://flags enable webgl