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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by ConstantineXVI on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:54AM (#5115150)
It's got noticeably better performance than Firefox for Android (on a N7, using [0] as a "benchmark"); but Chrome doesn't seem to have audio support.

EDIT: hm, Chrome doesn't seem to want to grab the audio at all; on both the pages I've tried, the audio downloads just hang as "Pending" in the inspector [1] [2]

[0] http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

[1] http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW

[2] http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by kayoone on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:55AM (#5115158)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6js5K08m3g

Didnt realize that WebGL already is on such a good performance level on mobile devices, impressive and exciting!

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by AndrewDucker on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:38AM (#5114979)
Firefox for Android already supports WebGL - seems to work fine on my Galaxy Nexus.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by patrickaljord on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:04AM (#5115182)
I never got it working more than a few seconds without it crashing the whole browser.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by stuaxo on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:02AM (#5115042)
It's about time, I remember seeing Sony doing webgl on their experia android phones a while back

http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/01/25/webgl-implementat...

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by dave1010uk on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:36AM (#5115108)
Also, the Nokia N900's browser supported WebGL in 2009.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/nokia-n900-impressively-d...

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nextparadigms on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:51AM (#5115342)
Well I wouldn't to see in Nokia's devices anymore anytime. Also these have all been just experiments. Even Apple has implemented part of WebGl in the iOS browser I think. But if Chrome beta has it, then the next stable version should have it, too.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by azakai on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:21AM (#5116122)
The HN title is misleading. It is still not enabled by default, it just got easier to manually switch on, so it wasn't "added". Still, this is good progress.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by ljf on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:14AM (#5114926)
Just been playing with the Quake 3 demo on my Nexus 4 and it looks stunning - really excited to see where this takes mobile casual games.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by jamesmiller5 on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:35AM (#5115278)
A really cool set of WebGL shader demos that also work.

http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by bsenftner on Friday January 25, 2013 @10:33AM (#5115844)
I hope this pressures Apple to support WebGL in iOS Safari.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by randomfool on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:09AM (#5116042)
I believe that they are waiting for arb_robustness.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by MayorOfMonkeys on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:28AM (#5116181)
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing the link to that extension. What makes you say Apple are waiting on this extension? I hadn't heard that before myself.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by kevingadd on Friday January 25, 2013 @12:05PM (#5116434)
How can Apple be waiting for a spec that was approved in 2010 when Apple writes and maintains their own GL implementations on all their platforms?
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by otibom on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:37AM (#5115110)
When is Chrome officially replacing the Android browser ?
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by josteink on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:44AM (#5115130)
Hopefully after they've fixed the woeful performance which is plaguing it.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nextparadigms on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:59AM (#5115169)
It already has with Android 4.1. But manufacturers might keep customizing the previous open source browser instead, for the time being at least.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nodata on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:12AM (#5115202)
Are you sure? When I use the Google search widget to find something, the browser it gives me doesn't seem to be Chrome.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nextparadigms on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:33AM (#5115271)
Are you using a Nexus device? I don't think they replaced the browser on Nexus devices older than Nexus 7. Only new devices that have been launched after June last year with Android 4.1 on board should have it by default, and as I said most manufacturers have probably left the other browser in there even on new devices. But the new Nexus/Motorola devices should have it.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nodata on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:45AM (#5115591)
Yes Nexus 4
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by bsimpson on Friday January 25, 2013 @02:10PM (#5117078)
Settings > Manage Apps > Browser > Clear Defaults

Next time you click a link, it will ask you which browser you like. Choose Chrome.

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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by justincormack on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:26AM (#5115247)
As soon as you click a link it goes into Chrome on mine.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nodata on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:46AM (#5115595)
If you hold press a link, do you get an option to open in a new tab?
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by justincormack on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:55AM (#5115649)
No. The actual results screen does appear to be a custom odd thing, and you cant see tabs until you click.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by nodata on Friday January 25, 2013 @10:17AM (#5115773)
I find this annoying - it's on search result pages that I am very likely to want to open lots of tabs. Ugh.
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by justincormack on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:16PM (#5118315)
But clicking any link opens in a new chrome tabs. The list is not itself a chrome tab...
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Re:Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta by coopaq on Friday January 25, 2013 @12:54PM (#5116680)
chrome://flags

enable webgl

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