3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL • Hacker News Board

LPCRoy wrote: post #7

suivix wrote: post #5

Does this have IE6 - IE8 support?

Sorry, this will only work in browsers that support WebGL, so Chrome and FF7+ for now.

this does not support ff7

Re: 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

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Post by GrantS » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 11:44 PM UTC

It was news to me that Safari supports WebGL -- the "Enable WebGL" option was sitting up there in the Develop menu all this time when I've been switching to Chrome for WebGL pages.

Re: 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

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Post by seddona » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 12:13 AM UTC

kamechan wrote: post #4

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #2

It looks like WebGL maps have their own GPU exclusion list, or something. I launched Chrome with --ignore-gpu-blacklist and WebGL maps still refuses to run. Chrome 14, Intel Mobile 4, Ubuntu 11.04

sadly, didn't work on my 2011 MBA with chrome 15 beta.

I concur, which is silly as webgl works great on the MBA.

Re: 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

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Post by jaredsohn » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 12:52 AM UTC

Here is a Chrome extension that will modify existing pages built with the Google maps API v3 to enable it:

https://github.com/broady/ForceWebGL

Re: 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

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Post by magicalist » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:03 AM UTC

mildweed wrote: post #9

azakai wrote: post #3

> At present, the Firefox beta and Chrome support WebGL Um, Firefox has supported WebGL in release builds for quite a long time now.

Yes, but it seems Google doesn't let Firefox access MapsGL yet. Your guess as to why...

It works in my Firefox 8 (which is indeed beta). I can't think of a reason in particular, but there was probably something added in Firefox 8 that it needs (eg full CORS support or something)

edit: yep: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures (at least, that is an important WebGL feature coming in Firefox 8)

Re: 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

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Post by justinschuh » Sat, Oct 15, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

magicalist wrote: post #18

mildweed wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it seems Google doesn't let Firefox access MapsGL yet. Your guess as to why...

It works in my Firefox 8 (which is indeed beta). I can't think of a reason in particular, but there was probably something added in Firefox 8 that it needs (eg full CORS support or something) edit: yep: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures (at least, that is an important WebGL feature coming in Firefox 8)

You are correct; CORS texture support is required for WebGL maps.