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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by colek42 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:32AM (#14675402)
I don't think writing a browser based, professional, CAD application is out of the question. Especially with WASM gaining support in modern browsers and WebGL2.

I think this was done a few years ago, but it still amazes me.

http://www.meshlabjs.net/

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by pjmlp on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:06AM (#14675815)
WebGL2 is a nice toy for writing blog posts, nothing more.

All my mobile devices have OpenGL ES 3.x running intensive native games without issues.

Yet for mobile browsers I have to specifically enable the WebGL 2 support.

No user without technical skills is ever going to deep dive in the browser flags to enable WebGL content on computers that don't have any issue playing 3D games.

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by learc83 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:57AM (#14677129)
It's enabled by default on Chrome for Android and Android webview now.
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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by pjmlp on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:06PM (#14678445)
Not if the GPU is blacklisted for whatever reason, in spite native games not having any issue with it.
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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by mcast on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:03AM (#14675646)
For a company like Palantir, I would imagine most of their clients are running older browsers, possibly even IE <10 still.

I'm not familiar with their product, but a web app would certainly introduce more developer time spent on keeping cross-compatibility with older browsers while a Java/native app is practically WYSIWYG.

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by lmeyerov on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:18AM (#14675682)
Maybe two fun data points:

-- We achieve magnitudes higher visual scale via GPU client/cloud computing... while running in a browser

-- We intersect with some of Palantir's customers (though we're more fortune 2000 sec/fraud/etc.), and are deploying fine. WebGL is ~5 years old.

This may also be a good point to note.. The Graphistry team is ~doubling! If scaling visual analytics for cybersecurity, anti-fraud, etc., sounds worthwhile, please send your CV/LinkedIn/Github to [email protected] !

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