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"Sorry, this demo only supports Google Chrome"

The joys of web portability.

Author here.

The demo actually works in all modern browsers that support WebGL. The reason why I only allowed Chrome to visit was that it was the only browser that could run it smoothly.(At least on my machine at the time I developed this demo).

I have just removed the detection. Sorry for the inconvenience and hope you enjoy it.

For future reference, if one does detection (which is probably alright for proof-of-concepts using new features) just make it a dismissable warning that pops up, preferably with a screenshot or animation or short video so that people can get some idea of what it looks like/what they're supposed to see.

What's worse, the error message appears to be displayed using a redirection to another page, so I can't use Firefox's inspector to try to make it work (Yes, I know the source is on GitHub, but to see a simple web demo? Not worth the effort of cloning or forking and re-hosting).

It looks like this is going to become a real problem soon. If I spoof my User-Agent, the demo works perfectly fine. Chrome is the new Made For Internet Explorer.

http://i.imgur.com/LsjVvlE.png

What string did you use? When I set mine to Chrome 25 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.68 Safari/537.22) I still get redirected. I don't use Mac enough to know what browser you're using from that screenshot.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.46 Safari/536.5

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