Wow, hardware acceleration makes a big difference here. I'm on a recent top of the line macbook pro and it couldn't handle it without hardware acceleration turned on. I wonder if they can/should disable the feature if it's off?
How We Built the GitHub Globe
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#22Shopify did something similar, I'm pretty sure, for Black Friday
looks so cool
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#23why is the octocat wearing a space helmet if there are plants growing below it? what happened on this planet to make the air unbreathable?
Some kind of chernobyl event, possibly caused by the ICBMs in the globe image?
What is the octocat standing on top of? Abandoned silo? Or live silo about to go hot?
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#24Wow, hardware acceleration makes a big difference here. I'm on a recent top of the line macbook pro and it couldn't handle it without hardware acceleration turned on. I wonder if they can/should disable the feature if it's off?
I am curious, why do you have hardware acceleration turned off?
To answer your question, the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat flag allows sites to turn off their hardware accelerated features when hardware acceleration is off.
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#25Not useful, all it does is lag the page and increase the cpu usage to 40% when you have hardware acceleration turned off.
Agree! They could have cached way more of this. A pre-rendered video would have had the same effect. A fun and impressive thing to build for sure, but its value isn't worth its complexity.
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#26Not useful, all it does is lag the page and increase the cpu usage to 40% when you have hardware acceleration turned off.
I work on WebGL in Chrome and I am curious why you have hardware acceleration turned off.
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#27Wow, hardware acceleration makes a big difference here. I'm on a recent top of the line macbook pro and it couldn't handle it without hardware acceleration turned on. I wonder if they can/should disable the feature if it's off?
I am curious, why do you have hardware acceleration turned off? To answer your question, the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat flag allows sites to turn off their hardware accelerated features when hardware acceleration is off.
Not the person you are responding to. I can provide a reason why it is off. Some software behaved differently/weirdly with hardware acceleration and often it is recommended to disable it. I have hardware acceleration disabled in Excel because of scrolling graphic bug.
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#28Alt title: how we made yet another population density map, but this time using all of your CPU.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am curious, why do you have hardware acceleration turned off? To answer your question, the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat flag allows sites to turn off their hardware accelerated features when hardware acceleration is off.
Not the person you are responding to. I can provide a reason why it is off. Some software behaved differently/weirdly with hardware acceleration and often it is recommended to disable it. I have hardware acceleration disabled in Excel because of scrolling graphic bug.
I work on WebGL in Chrome. It's my job to fix bugs like these. I'm hoping to learn what specific bugs people are hitting.
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#30Based on the Satellite video it looks like the US is the only place on the planet coding more during the night than during the day.