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does not support webGL
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. pop in this url http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/webgl/clouds/
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
clouds move towards you
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Mac OS X 10.7.4 with websaver 2.5
Please provide any additional information below.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 26 Jul 2012 at 9:33
is this screensaver rendering with the safari that is on the system or?
because i'm sure safari 6.0 can handle a lot of things that this app seems to
not
Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jul 2012 at 9:35
WebSaver uses the OS X system web page rendering framework WebKit, just as
Safari does. WebGL support is not enabled in WebKit prior to the version of
WebKit shipped with OS X v10.10 Yosemite, so the solution to the problem is to
upgrade to Yosemite. I tried this URL in Safari 8 on Yosemite, and in WebSaver
2.5 on Yosemite, and it worked fine in both.
Some older versions of WebKit do have WebGL but it is not enabled by default.
Safari on earlier versions of OS X than Yosemite (back to Safari 5.1 on Mac OS
X v10.6 Snow Leopard) have a Develop menu which can be enabled, and in that
menu there is an option to turn on WebGL support. But naturally that only
applies to Safari, not to WebSaver or any other programs that use WebKit.
So either this bug should be closed as invalid, wontfix, notabug, or whatever
the equivalent is in this issue tracker, or it can be reclassified as an
enhancement request and WebSaver could be enhanced to offer a feature similar
to Safari's where WebGL support can be enabled in those older versions of
WebKit which offer WebGL support but do not enable it by default.
Regarding your comment "safari 6.0 can handle a lot of things that this app
seems to not", more specifics are needed, but perhaps it would be better to
file additional tickets for any additional perceived missing features, since
this ticket is specifically about missing WebGL support.
Original comment by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2014 at 9:21
