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I have been forced to take the battery out as a way to kill webgl pages on my mobile devices, due to the way they hogged the CPU.

Nice idea, execution is still lacking on mobile.

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Just like you have to kill any native app for mobile, even though a native app is obviously much more efficient. I think you are missing the point a bit... it is not about making the most performant or visually impressive thing out there. It is about how easy it is to make something that looks good, performs acceptably and runs pretty much everywhere with basically zero effort in terms of porting.

Except your description only applies to desktop class machines.

I am not missing the point, as 99% of the WebGL demos I see being thrown around don't run out of the box on mobile devices that most people have, as you imply.

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