Hacker News Reader

Comment by hmottestad | Hacker News Reader

I guess this is going to be the next race for browser compatibility. So far I've tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome all on OS X Lion, I'm hoping a newer version of Chrome will work, if not I guess this is all still mostly academics.

View on HN

One of the great joys of using the FireFox Nightly, is that stuff like this usually works. Unless you need total extension compatibility, these have seemed rock-stable over the last month or so.

http://nightly.mozilla.org/ <--- try one of these

Taking one notch of one of my 4 cpus, since it's obviously running mainly on my Radeon 5570 graphics card/

I’m on Lion and vanilla Chrome works for me. Safari also works if I turn on the Develop menu (in the Advanced tab of the preferences) and use it to turn on WebGL.

Yep, newest version of chrome does work. Which is also the only browser that does. It uses about 40% of a i5 dual core cpu in the Macbook Pro 15" mid 2010.

Got the latest stable for ubuntu 32 bit and it doesn't work.

Not all combinations of hardware and drivers work yet. See:

http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists

I'm on a relatively ancient non-unibody MBP with a Penryn Core 2 Duo, 512 MB GeForce 8600M GT and Snow Leopard and it works on vanilla Chrome for me as well. And it uses 30%–40% here too — interesting since the i5 benches a lot better.

Doesn't seem to work here however on the Dev branch (15.0.849.0). Not that that's surprising: random stuff breaks regularly, and there's no way to go back...

It's probably more of a driver thing than a browser thing.

The demo works great on FF8 over here. Linux/NVidia.

OS X is still a tiny share of the market. This demo works just fine on Windows.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com