Comments on: Metatunnel: The (Future) Web Strikes Back

By: Udo

Udo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:38:45 +0000

Oh no, I’m sorry: I didn’t realize I had to give explicit permission for the site in the Canvas3D preferences window. It works, beautiful! Around 20% single CPU load on a 2008 Mac Pro…

By: Udo

Udo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:36:03 +0000

This is looking really promising, time for me to check out Canvas3D in detail. Sadly, I can’t get the demo to run on FF3.5b3 for OS X:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/misc/metatunnel-3d.html :: go :: line 9" data: no]

Anyone else having any luck?

By: PauloFalcao

PauloFalcao — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:30:03 +0000

Wow! I was on vacations, and so many stuff happened :) I was also going to port to 3dcanvas, it turns out that vlad himself did the port! Awesome! Very nice work! :)

By: slightlyoff

slightlyoff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:03:03 +0000

This is starting to get good! It’d be neat to see how it can look on a JS VM w/ a more incremental GC strategy, though. A big part of why the chromexperiments stuff works so well in Chrome is that the browser isn’t hitting big GC pauses, and I’d love to see that kind of thing applied to demos like this.

By: jsutcliffe

jsutcliffe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:55:31 +0000

I suspected that the original was deeply unfair as it was probably using the GPU, and I’m glad it seems I was correct. The idea of being able to access the OpenGL API with javascript is very exciting. I look forward to seeing what people accomplish with it — all previous attempts at web-based 3D seem to have been half-baked at best.

By: Darkimmortal

Darkimmortal — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:46:39 +0000

This is epic – I’m getting absolutely no lag at all on both versions, and with full antialiasing on the 3D one :D

And my PC is nearly two years old and was only a cheap-ish gaming PC when built.

By: TNO

TNO — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:33:30 +0000

Because thats what it’s called:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En

By: vvtim

vvtim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:05:29 +0000

Why does everyone keep referring to Firefox 3.1 as 3.5?

By: iliad

iliad — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:08:42 +0000

Haha nice! JS taking names and kicking ass :D

I know that realistically we’re far away from playing canvas based UT in Chrome, but we’re getting there.