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Nice! I too made a GLSL game of life. It also uses your webcam as a secondary input during the lifecycle: https://akjetma.github.io/#/face-of-life

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Great discussion why User-Agent sniffing is bad is on the front page right now...

what browser are you using? well aware of the mess that is browser detection. the function i am using is horrible voodoo cargo-culted magic: https://github.com/akjetma/akjetma.github.io/blob/master/src...

I was trying it in Opera. A chromium based browser that always had WebGL as far as I know. Even the previous version had optional WebGL (so user agent blocking would not made sense either). So unless this code was written 5 years ago, it's useless. And even if it was, it's obviously badly written and useless as well.

> well aware of the mess that is browser detection

It's a mess because people use it for other things than statistics. "Use IE5+" era apparently taught developers absolutely nothing.

Oh you're an opera user. That explains the anger. Anyways, it's fixed now!

edit: also want to clarify that I don't blindly use the user-agent string for browser detection and this was a bug in my app code. Nothing to do with my browser detection function which was working properly.

I'd call it frustration :)

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