{"id":222,"date":"2012-04-17T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:32:10","slug":"webgl-and-firefoxchrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"WebGL and Firefox\/Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developing web applications has been always annoying regarding the browsers difference interpretation of the what is standard and what not, thats the reason why I stopped developing for IE. At least Google and Mozilla are serious about the standards so 99% of the code I develop for Firefox (my default browser) works in Chrome as expected. Kudos for both of them.<\/p>\n

They have their own extensions but they are for more experimental features. Regarding to what functionalities to support, they both follow the same standard and thats great.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to WebGL, although they both follow the same standard, the implementation is a little bit different.<\/p>\n

That means that the performance it is not the same between both browsers under the same circunstances, and that is a problem, because there is no way I can see what is the browser doing (besides downloading the fullcode…) so if the performance is unstable I feel I reached a dead-end.<\/p>\n

I dont mean that one browser is more optimized than the other, my issues are more about how some actions cost more to one browser than the other.<\/p>\n

My current application runs much more smoothly in Firefox than in Chrome, but Firefox loves to purge the Garbage Collector<\/strong> every 10 seconds freezing the application for several seconds, which makes it totally unfriendly. Chrome on the other hand is more stable but the frame-rate drops<\/strong> sometimes just by adding a tiny mesh to the rendering process.<\/p>\n

Chrome also do not like negative values for the viewport (I can understand that) and show some weird results when stretching a texture too much (\u00c2\u00bf?), looks like an undocumented bug with the magnification filter.<\/p>\n

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It makes me reconsider if WebGL is the perfect platform for 3D applications and games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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