Comments on: Firefox Canvas 3D Extension Available

By: Vladimir Vukicevic

Vladimir Vukicevic — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:46:42 +0000

Did you remember to enable it via the options? If so, there may be a problem with your OpenGL implementation and/or some incompatibility. There’s a lot of fragility currently with getting the right OpenGL bits.

By: florian

florian — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:42:40 +0000

Uhm I installed a nightly build of firefox and the plugin, doesn’t work. :/

By: vezquex

vezquex — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:05:41 +0000

Remember where you were at this moment, history in the making!

By: BookWise

BookWise — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:39:05 +0000

This is very impressive but looks very dangerous… I think it will be something that I will be content to enjoy on other people’s sites for quite some time. I’m green with envy though!

By: Vladimir Vukicevic

Vladimir Vukicevic — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:10:12 +0000

Security is a serious concern, but as AndyB said, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. We just need to figure out how to define the model for the web such that all data can be checked for correctness. There may well be issues in individual opengl implementations, but that’s no different from problems in any other system library — workarounds and fixes need to be found.

By: AndyB

AndyB — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:23:59 +0000

Just as scary as running any other webapp or OpenGL application, SchizoDuckie, with all those memory leaks and security holes in every application. Obviously we shouldn’t do something because it could be misused by people who don’t know how to use it.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:14:12 +0000

Too bad it doesn’t seem to work with 2.0.0.9.

By: Adam Sanderson

Adam Sanderson — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:56:38 +0000

This could be really great for experimenting with OpenGL. Would have been pretty cool for a computer graphics class.

By: SchizoDuckie

SchizoDuckie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:00:05 +0000

Okay i think it’s really cool that all of this is possible, but OpenGL really is *NOT* a language for the web. I can see all kinds of memory leaks and security holes coming up with code like this. It’s scary if you ask me..

By: Les

Les — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:41:52 +0000

that would be Mandelbrot, not Mandelbrut