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Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by nfoz on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @04:33PM (#8144689)
> Your browser doesn't support all of the features required for this demo. Please consider using the latest version of Chrome.

I guess "today's web" is not an Open web, and has a single-point-of-failure hard-dependency on Google (at multiple levels).

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by acdha on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:14PM (#8144895)
It also works in Firefox, Opera, and WebKit. The only modern browsers left out appears to be Safari 7 (no WebGL) and IE (Web Audio).

Give it a year and both of those are likely to work.

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by fred_durst on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:40PM (#8145020)
Indeed. If the authors stop by, consider changing the message to something more like

"Your browser does no appear to support a couple things required to play this presentation(WebGL, Web Audio etc). The latest versions of several browsers do. You might want to try one of those instead."

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by _lmccart on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:57PM (#8145095)
thanks, yes, working on a fix right now. we also want to make it clear that those things are not necessarily required for p5.js itself, just the demo.
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by soperj on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:12PM (#8145399)
but they're obviously required to do things in the demo no?
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by isaack on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @09:23PM (#8145829)
Safari 7 has WebGL but is disabled by default. Enable developer menus, then click on "Enable WebGL".
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by masklinn on Thursday August 07, 2014 @04:04AM (#8146714)
> The only modern browsers left out appears to be Safari 7 (no WebGL)

Safari has WebGL since 5-ish but disabled by default.

To enable, Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu, then Develop > Enable WebGL

The presentation seems to work allright, although it suffers from some slowdowns.

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by acdha on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:47AM (#8147960)
I'm aware of that but it effectively doesn't exist for the public if it's gated behind a developer option. This goes double for Safari on iOS.

That said, I was happy to have it run well on my system with WebGL enabled since that should make it a smooth transition when Safari 8 is released.

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by azmenak on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:15PM (#8145176)
Works perfectly in Safari 8 running in Yosemite Beta
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by acdha on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:22PM (#8145647)
Yeah, I'm expecting WebGL to be realistic for many sites in the next year. Even Microsoft is moving to automatic updates and Apple would be foolish not to release Safari 8 at least on 10.8/10.9 since the WebKit nightly builds run perfectly there.
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by lccarrasco on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @04:48PM (#8144780)
played perfectly on Firefox (Win8.1 Firefox 31.0) for me, I think Chrome is just a suggestion.
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by teamonkey on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:23PM (#8145210)
It doesn't work in IE11. That page (not the library) does a test for Modernizr.webaudio, which IE11 fails.
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by nfoz on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:49AM (#8146316)
For what it's worth, I was browsing with Iceweasel on Debian-stable.
Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by e12e on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:31AM (#8147875)
Well, you're comment made me aware I'd better restart my iceweasel session, I'd already upgraded from 29 to 31, but was running old code. And then I found out I'll probably have to reboot, as firefox/iceweasel tries to pull in nouveau-based drivers... and I'm running the binary-blob nvidia drivers.

So, still no webgl, but with any luck xorg will come up with accelerated 3d on next re-boot - and webgl will work too.

I do wish more hw companies would just release free and open drivers...

This particular rig is a hand-me-down -- next gpu will be radeon, among other things for their efforts to be a better driver-citizen than nvidia. Even if for a certain set of configurations, nvidia has delivered better actual hw performance under Linux, for certain fixed configurations.

Re:P5.js: Processing for today’s web by chanux on Thursday August 07, 2014 @01:01AM (#8146338)
It worked for me on Firefox. 31 but there have been so many times I was disappointed.

Also the demo/intro was fantastic.