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Firefox support #1

Open intgr opened 12 years ago

intgr commented 12 years ago

Firefox is among the first browsers (if not the first?) to support WebGL. But when accessing the site with Firefox, it says "We are sorry, but it appears that your browser is not supported. Please download Google Chrome and try launching this again"

It would be nice to have a list of problems or limitations with Firefox, so someone could fix them (either in Firefox or in walkinafog itself).

PS: This is a really cool demo. Interactive web music videos sounds like a glimpse of the future.

idflood commented 12 years ago

Hi,

Thanks. The problem is not really webgl but webaudio support. Chrome has a powefull api to analyze sound like computing fft in native code instead of javascript. Apparently firefox dropped their implementation and will use the same api as chrome. So in the meantime it should be possible to rely on some kind of polyfill for the audio aspect.

Making this experiment work on firefox was on my todolist but I dropped it and went for fine tuning instead.

intgr commented 12 years ago

I see... After a lot of searching, I found the Firefox Bugzilla entry tracking the progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779297

Sadly it looks like they haven't even begun implementing this yet. But they're clearly leaning in this direction since the old API is already marked "deprecated" in their wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API

I have created a new article on MozillaWiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Web_Audio_API