On: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL

[pjmlp]

Interesting, on a desktop browser.

On mobiles, 100% probability to kill Chrome on Android.

[Cthulhu_ → pjmlp]

Because there might be some optimization tricks the author missed, or because the canvas implementation on mobile is bad/unoptimized/doesn't use hardware accelleration? Also, "probability" indicates you didn't even try it.

I did (both Safari and Chrome, iPhone 6), the framerate is definitely low (~10 frames per second?) but it didn't kill it so your statement might be a bit exaggerated. Framerate is a bit lower on Chrome, too.

[pjmlp → Cthulhu_]

It did kill it, Chrome just terminates.

Samsung S3, running Android 4.3 with Chrome 40.0.2214.109.

The 100% probability is that it terminates the Chrome process every time I access the page.

But I guess down voting my original post makes people feel better about WebGL support on the platforms that are getting the desktop back.

[dagw → pjmlp]

For what it's worth it doesn't crash for me (Android 4.4, same version of Chrome). However I just get random flashing glitches and no actual graphics.

[callumprentice → pjmlp]

Yeah, it's really targeted at desktop because of the volume of data but I expect I have missed a bunch of optimization tricks. It's simple enough that I should be able to iterate on it.

[pjmlp → callumprentice]

As I mentioned in another thread, on my mobile Chrome just dies, it is not even sluggish.

[callumprentice → pjmlp]

Maybe a shader issue then - WebGL is still fairly new on mobile devices.