WebGL can no longer use cross-domain textures in Firefox 5

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures

by daredevildave • 15 years ago

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rwmj• 15 years ago

Why on earth is this stuff in browser in the first place? Just so that a tiny handful of web pages can show GL demos? It's just crazy to include all this functionality in mainstream browsers.

wladimir4• 15 years ago

Gaming.

A large part of people is using the web for (casual MMO) gaming. 3D gaming is very popular and attracts users. Currently this involves hacks using clunky applets (such as java3d). With WebGL, this will be a thing of the past.

3D in the browser has been tried before with VRML, which failed. One of the reasons for failing was that is was too high-level. Most game devs want to use low-level APIs such as OpenGL. Hence I think WebGL will be huge success.

palish• 15 years ago

It won't be a success until Local Storage isn't limited to 5MB. Right now there's no way to "install" your game into a browser, which cripples WebGL's ability to be a serious alternative to traditional PC-based gaming / mobile gaming.

A single uncompressed 1024x1024 RGBA texture is 4MB, for example.

(I say all this not to be negative, but rather in hopes that the correct developers will hear the plea from the indie game industry: enhance Local Storage. We want to build games on your WebGL platform, but we can't until you do.)

kaib• 15 years ago

We are made a cloud-based solid CAD application using it: http://tinkercad.com

I think it's important that WebGL gets pushed to the browser. Getting a stable 3D environment is super important for application development and obviously games.

keeperofdakeys• 15 years ago

Imagine if I could write one app that worked on an iOS, Android, Linux, OSX, Windows. I may need to do a bit of working around browser bugs, but in the end I only have that one program. Don't just think this will be limited to online apps, thanks you html5 storage we can actually store html applications to the phone.

yesimahuman• 15 years ago

One workaround is to "mirror" the images: send the url of each texture image to your own server and download it back again. This does funnel a potentially large amount of traffic through a small number of machines though and loads the image from a new IP.

WebGL can no longer use cross-domain textures in Firefox 5

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