Google Chrome just killed the Unity Web Player

littleclaude

Google Chrome just killed the Unity Web Player

http://snip.ly/o5AR#http://twiik.net/articles/google-chrome-just-killed-the-unity-web-player

EarthQuake

Long live WebGL.

This is something they've been planing on doing for a while. Everyone wants to get away from content that requires plugins on the web.

Swizzle

Good. Maybe this will push Unity to stop requiring a stupid plugin and start going with something a little more friendly.

PyrZern

EarthQuake wrote: »

Long live WebGL.

This is something they've been planing on doing for a while. Everyone wants to get away from content that requires plugins on the web.

.... But... what about having to download Google Chat/Hangout/Voice/Earth plugins to use em ??

Ace-Angel

So Google kills off Unity extension, but still insists I download a 90's looking setup file from a hard to find link to use their Phone tool on FireFox?

Yeah, I think it's clear someone didn't pay the Google toll...

Equanim

There's probably a way to test for that api on the client side, and if it's disabled, prompt the user to enable it with the link mentioned in the article, similarly to how some sites require cookies to function properly.

After something as widely used as Flash was basically run out of town for the same reasons, I'm convinced that the best way to deliver truly rich content like a game is as an app anyway, where your code doesn't HAVE to be interpreted at run time and you have better access to the hardware.

Justin Meisse

Just in time for Ludum Dare, nice job :P