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I see no reason why this should be a Chrome exclusive in PC only mode. Firefox supports WebGl.

Couldn't agree more. Instead of promoting cross-browser web standards in a cooperative manner, they're pretending they couldn't support other browsers in a sad attempt to win more users. Not going to happen.

You're technically right (and I found it annoying too) - but it is a "Chrome" expriment... naturally it would only support Chrome.

its a website. one of many, that is chrome only. makes IE looks like a good citizen these days

Well, Mozilla didn't make their BananaBread experiment Firefox only: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread

Why "naturally", if other browsers also implement the relevant technologies?

They create those demos to attract users to their browser - kind of defeats the purpose if you can run it using any browser. I actually downloaded mobile chrome on to run this - I usually run Firefox.

I clicked through all their fine print links and the demo ran OK on Firefox nightly using the desktop only option. Admittedly that cuts out a good portion of the demo.

If your purpose is to attract users rather than advance the web, sure.

But they _claim_ that the purpose of these demos is to advance the web.

That's not to mention that claims like "only works in Chrome" when in fact it works elsewhere happen to be lies. I guess no one worries about that sort of thing nowadays...

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