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I'm on a pretty old laptop and this runs extremely well on Windows 7 (using Nightly). I also tried it on Xubuntu 13.04, but I couldn't get it to run (I tried it on Chromium and Firefox). As for the demo, I'm stunned. It's incredible.
Still, it's pretty amazing.
I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat. I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering po…
Many people are doing some pretty amazing things with WebGL: http://wp.me/puh71-9M
My theory is that Mozilla and Google are in a race to develop the most advanced html5 engines because they know that if a killer html game or app gets developed in their browser, everyone who wants to use the app will switch to them while the other implementations tries to catch up.
It will also prevent new browsers from trying to pop up, unless they simply fork and try to keep up with one of the two major engines. Google and Mozilla know they can outpace any competitors that are trying to innovate in the web space by having the "latest" html5 features integrated. In example, unless Microsoft pours a bunch of money into it, or Internet Explorer forks Mozilla or Google, they can pretty much count that competitor out.
Is this supporting an open web?
What's the problem with focusing on open source plugin virtual machines that can work in every browser regardless of that browser's version?
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From the FAQ: - Chrome currently crashes, but is expected to be resolved by the Chrome team soon. http://www.unrealengine.com/html5_faq/
I wish I had read that first :/ Crashed my whole system Chromium 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.04
What's the point of having these massive javascript virtual machines & webgl systems in our browsers? How does having a separate implementation of a specification help us build a safer, more open web? My theory is that Mozilla and Google are in a race to develop the most advanced html5 engines because they know that if a killer html game or app gets developed in their browser, everyone who wants to use the app will s…
Exactly, an open source standardized VM would be ideal, then you would have a choice of languages as well.
It doesn't work for me. I downloaded Nightly using the provided link, but when I open the URL it still says unsupported browser. It also doesn't have the option to 'try anyway' like Chrome does.
I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat. I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering po…
Where did you get that idea? Just look at these graphs:
http://www.dartlang.org/performance/
Apparently, they are still trying to make V8 faster. V8's graph isn't flat and there are also very recent bumps.
>As oppossed to supporting asm.js
Asm.js is about JavaScript the compiler target, not JavaScript itself. Using asm.js means writing code in C/C++ (or something similar), which means it's more comparable to PNaCl than Dart.
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Many people are doing some pretty amazing things with WebGL: http://wp.me/puh71-9M
The only amazing stuff is the distribution mechanism really. Other stuff is just plain old OpenGL but in your browser this time. It is not like it has some crazy support for raytraced voxels or something.
Also - as I understand it, what's impressive about all this isn't just the graphics. Once you've passed vertices etc... off to the graphics pipeline then yes Javascript doesn't handle much of the load .... but as we know a lot of games are CPU bound, and the fact that Javascript is increasingly able to offer acceptable performance relative to the native compiled experience of c/c++ is pretty nuts.
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From the FAQ: - Chrome currently crashes, but is expected to be resolved by the Chrome team soon. http://www.unrealengine.com/html5_faq/
I wish I had read that first :/ Crashed my whole system Chromium 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.04