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Re:Web GL Ocean Simulation by hexasquid on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:17PM (#6803883)
I'd venture that the differences these day is that there is no install step and it works on many different systems.
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Re:Web GL Ocean Simulation by AsymetricCom on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:18PM (#6803892)
>many different systems.

Sure, for varying values of "works" and "different" and "no install step".

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that a DOS executable from the 90's will run on more machines in the world than this demo, given "platforms" similarly to what this demo takes as a given.

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Re:Web GL Ocean Simulation by vectorpush on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:27PM (#6804745)
Sure, for varying values of "works" and "different" and "no install step".

You could say the same thing about anything related to web browsers. What's your point?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that a DOS executable from the 90's will run on more machines in the world than this demo

Right... except a user has to trust you enough to download and execute your DOS binary rather than just execute a javascript file in a browser sandbox.

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Re:Web GL Ocean Simulation by AsymetricCom on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @12:30PM (#6809589)
I already have a sandbox, it's called a computer.
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