War and Peace and WebGL
Learning and science
text rendering demo
SHOW HN2016
65points
28comments
#588of 2,264 in 2016
Top 26%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
6 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Execution: 4 for, 8 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive and nicely rendered when it works
From 2 comments
Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome. Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.
arethuza on HNYes, works like a charm now. Really nicely rendered. Good job! What was the issue?
exDM69 on HN
Objections
Fails to render on many platforms and browsers
From 5 comments
I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.
exDM69 on HNSame here, all white on chrome, linux, nvidia proprietary. The previous text rendering demo worked on the same setup.
green7ea on HNDoesn't work on Windows 10 for me, neither FF nor Chrome.
scotty79 on HNWindows 10 chrome. doesn't work. chrome canary didn't work (some d3d errors) edge (i gave up after waiting for 2 minutes to load)
kyriakos on HNIt's almost completely unreadable on my Android phone. The character shapes are mostly there, but the triangles overlap in weird ways, like vertex order might be wrong it…
moron4hire on HN
Very slow performance and crashes on some hardware
From 3 comments
interesting technique but it's extremely slow on Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB (and so I assume other machines). Like when zoomed in it's under 2fps whereas I suspect the built in…
greggman on HNI really like this demo, but it reliably crashes a mid 2012 macbook pro with lion, both on firefox and safari (the older version of the demo was the same). Now, reading the other…
cimbal on HNWorked for me on iPad mini 2, albeit very slowly.
marcosscriven on HN
Requests
Zoom centred on mouse cursor instead of screen centre
From 1 comment
It works well for me in several platforms. What would improve it is when you zoom, with the mouse wheel or gesture if it would zoom in on the mouse cursor point rather than at…
smy1es on HN
Questions
How to diagnose device WebGL capabilities and ensure cross-device support
From 1 comment
I really like this demo, but it reliably crashes a mid 2012 macbook pro with lion, both on firefox and safari (the older version of the demo was the same). Now, reading the other…
cimbal on HN
Why BMP instead of PNG for glyph texture
From 1 comment
I'm curious about the choice of bmp for http://wdobbie.com/warandpeace/glyphs.bmp Why not a png ? Edit: So after a quick test: * glyphs.bmp 53.5 MB * glyphs.png 7.6 MB I guess it…
fla on HN