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Re:Show HN: A WebGL visualization to show how global tempera... by gunn on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:25PM (#12476816)
"Your graphics card does not seem to support WebGL".

I've never failed to run WebGL before. Using chrome on mac.

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Re:Show HN: A WebGL visualization to show how global tempera... by callumprentice on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:28PM (#12476829)
That's odd - same sort of configuration as me (Chrome 51 on a pretty old iMac)

Fairly recent version of Chrome I presume? Other WebGL apps still run ok?

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Re:Show HN: A WebGL visualization to show how global tempera... by gunn on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:47PM (#12476877)
Huh, actually other WebGL demos aren't working for me now.

I'm on chrome 53 and chrome://gpu/ says: "WebGL: Hardware accelerated" but canvas.getContext('webgl') returns null.

Anyway, I can run it nicely in firefox.

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Re:Show HN: A WebGL visualization to show how global tempera... by callumprentice on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:58PM (#12476911)
Interesting. I think Chrome blacklists some GPUs and drivers occasionally so maybe that's what happened. Glad it works ok on Firefox and thanks for the feedback.
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