[Tade0]

Let me be the first then: Doesn't work on my Galaxy S8 - "This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension", so I guess it's the same issue.

Truth be told the phone is relatively old, but then again I haven't switched because it... still works and I assume many other owners made the same choice regarding their devices.

[moron4hire]

You may want to try temporarily disabling GPU blacklisting in chrome://flags or about: config (both Chrome and Firefox have this "feature"). There are a bunch of very specific hardware, OS version, driver version, and feature extension combinations that are disallowed in the browser.

Unfortunately, this feature is very obscure, not really explained anywhere, and no complete list of blocked configurations exists anywhere. I've heard that it's supposedly to protect from buggy implementations that might allow a sandbox escape exploit. But again, that's just hearsay, there's really no official, up to date documentation on any of this

[Tade0]

I happen to know it, because for years there was an issue with hardware acceleration in Chrome on Mali cards (something something EXT_robustness), so I just chalked it up as the same sort of fuckery.

Thanks for reminding though.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Is it the Mali (Exynos) or the Adreno (Snapdragon) variant?

I doubt either would actually lack float texture support though. The WebGL implementation perhaps has weird requirements for when to allow this extension.

[Tade0]

Exynos.

I checked and indeed it's not listed when looking at chrome://gpu

Works on Firefox though.

[jlokier]

It works on my Galaxy S8 when I view the page from HN reader Materialistic :)

That's because it runs fine in Firefox Focus. The error message shows up in Samsumg Internet Browser and Chrome though.

(S8 is a great device. I don't want to "upgrade" - hate the notch on newer versions, the S8 still performs very well, and I don't know of any feature only in newer phones that I have a use worth paying for.)

[zurn]

S8 was released in 2017, for anyone else curious.

[amh1]

I replied almost at the same time as yours and my phone is galaxy a32 and getting the same error message as yours.

[cmroanirgo]

It works fine on my Samsung A8 using Firefox Nightly, but not on FireFox 68.

[plekter]

It works in Firefox on my a32

[amh1]

Yes. By seeing your comment, I just installed firefox and tested.It works fine.