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Florin_Andrei
It looks like WebGL maps have their own GPU exclusion list, or something. I launched Chrome with --ignore-gpu-blacklist and WebGL maps still refuses to run.

Chrome 14, Intel Mobile 4, Ubuntu 11.04

kamechan
sadly, didn't work on my 2011 MBA with chrome 15 beta.
seddona
I concur, which is silly as webgl works great on the MBA.
LPCRoy
We do not have an exclusion list, but we do run a micro-benchmark on your machine to ensure your GPU will be powerful enough to handle MapsGL. You can try upgrading your drivers as well, which sometimes improves performance (looks like intel put out new device drivers for that chip about a year ago)
keeperofdakeys
You could try enabling the "Override software rendering list" option in about:flags, although that is probably the same as the --ignore-gpu-blacklist option.
azakai
> At present, the Firefox beta and Chrome support WebGL

Um, Firefox has supported WebGL in release builds for quite a long time now.

mildweed
Yes, but it seems Google doesn't let Firefox access MapsGL yet. Your guess as to why...
magicalist
It works in my Firefox 8 (which is indeed beta). I can't think of a reason in particular, but there was probably something added in Firefox 8 that it needs (eg full CORS support or something)

edit: yep: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures (at least, that is an important WebGL feature coming in Firefox 8)

justinschuh
You are correct; CORS texture support is required for WebGL maps.
suivix
Does this have IE6 - IE8 support?
LPCRoy
Sorry, this will only work in browsers that support WebGL, so Chrome and FF7+ for now.
dualogy
Sure, just install the ChromeFrame plugin!
akavlie
No, nor IE9 support. Nor IE10 even. Microsoft isn't too keen on WebGL.
rorrr
Works very well on my weak laptop GPU.

It actually seems smoother than the regular canvas implementation. Plus there are nice transition effects.

Not sure how practical it is though, but I do like the idea of shifting graphics intensive work to the GPU.

aidenn0
Too bad WebGL doesn't work on my linux box
GrantS
It was news to me that Safari supports WebGL -- the "Enable WebGL" option was sitting up there in the Develop menu all this time when I've been switching to Chrome for WebGL pages.