Why do Glitch projects not play in my Chrome browser? - aframe

I'm a newbie who was told to use Aframe instead of unreal or unity, so I went to aframe.io and found a link to glitch vr projects, but I couldn't see them until I used Firefox and Safari. I assume I have something turned off in Chrome, right? If that's the case, it makes me concerned that users may also have the same issue.
Thanks for you time reading this.

Because I was on an old Mac laptop, the fix was to go to Chrome settings Advanced section and enable "Use hardware acceleration when available"

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Drupal Webspeech

We are using webspeech(https://www.drupal.org/project/webspeech) module for text-to-speech in one of our project. Basic functionality is working fine. But when we open this site in mobile devices (samsung, apple, sony) TTS feature is not working and no error is also being displayed.
We have tried to debug the problem but not able to do so.
Any help will be much appreciate.
If you read the module requirements it says specifically
Flash 9+ is required on client web browser. Modern browsers those
support HTML5 may also work but not guaranteed.
I see you opened an issue with the maintainer, which will probably be your best source of information, but it looks like you might be hit or (mostly) miss on mobile devices for now.

doc.meteor.com does not work well with Mac Safari 7.0.1?

I've been using Mac (Mavericks) Safari to lookup docs.meteor.com but of late, Safari was not able to read the site. The location bar keeps refreshing and no page appears.
I think the latest 0.7.0.1 may have broke it. Any one experiencing the same issue?
Apparently, there is a known problem as discussed in this thread at meteor-talk google group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-talk/ZzQVdcdz33Y/discussion
It seems to work when dev tools is open and now work when it is closed.

Google map touch events on google chrome and windows8/IE10

Im currently editing a Wordpress theme called explorable (http://elegantthemes.com/preview/Explorable/)
The final site will be hosted on a windows 8 touch screen device and will be an interactive map.
I am having a few problems with the touch screen mechanics and decided to use google chromes built in, Emulate touch events feature. However I can't seem to drag the map at all unless I have the iphone/ipad user agent also ticked.
I checked the documentation and drag is enabled by default so I'm not sure why this is turned off for desktop, this might also be the reason why I cant get drag to work on the windows8 box.
Not sure if Im missing something thing obvious or not, or that I just need to declare a setting when the map is initiated.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
UPDATE
This issue was handled in the bug
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35824421
and was solved in version 3.27 of Google Maps JavaScript API in December 2016.
Turns out Google chrome does not support touch events very well on windows 8 touch devices. However IE10 does so I set the application to run on this browser.
For what i need the application to do this worked well, however this might not be the best solution for other people having trouble with touch actions on chrome in windows 8.
This is in fact a Google Map bug #6425.
Check out my answer to this question for another workaround using User Agent spoofing.

Google webfonts acting crazy on PC

I've built a site for a company and i used a google webfont on some of the text.
Problem is - Text looks sharp and good on both my computers (mac and pc).
But when my customer is viewing the webpage on their computer its all grumpy and very hard to read... They run Internet explorer 8 - it shouldnt be any problem.
Any suggestions what could be wrong?
Screenshot from their computer
Looks like an issue with ClearType.
What version of Windows do they have? I bet it's XP.
This article explains how to set up ClearType
http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog/27/Mozilla_FireFox_Tips_Tricks_Activate_ClearType_Font.html
You can then use Microsoft's web tool to fine tune ClearType if it still looks a little wonky
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx
Edit
If you're worried about general users having the same issue, one possible solution is to detect if ClearType is enabled or not, and then change the font-family accordingly.
Look here for details:
Can you detect if Cleartype is enabled on PC via javascript?

How to emulate IE7 and FF2?

I build a webpage and in IE8 + FF3 it goes well, but a friend opens it in ie7 and it's terrible.
How can I emulate IE7 / other things / FF2 in my Windows 7 envoirement?
You need to run in in a virtual machine as you can't have multiple versions of IE installed on the same machine the same time.
Downlaod Virtual PC 2007
Download the IE7 Virtual PC image from Microsoft. There's also an IE6 image there.
You can also install FF2 on the virtual machines safely.
IE8 has a Developer Tools utility under Toos->Developer Tools. You can change Compatibility Mode to view how the page would look in IE7. As for FF2, the only way I know of is to actually have FF2 installed. Maybe you can find an older download package?
Once the utility opens there is a Browser Mode: box on the top menu. Change that to IE7, and it will render the page as IE7 would.
I've used the 'Superpreview' feature that comes with Expression Web 3, it has help me to get a page working with IE8,7 and even 6, along with FireFox. You can get a free trail if you can't get the full version.
You can use IETester for IE 5.5 to 8 for emulation. You can add on DebugBar (by the same developer) into IETester for Firebug-like debugging.
However Firefox I'm not sure. The only thing I can think of is to download a clean FF 2 and install it on another computer.
As for Firefox, you can use a portable version.
Various options locally:
Run multiple virtual machines hosting different browsers (or combinations of browsers)
The latest version of expression has a fairly comprehensive browser comparison tool
There are some clever IE hacks out there too.
Also online
Browsercam (and similar sites)
Adobe Browserlab possibly - not sure how "live" it is yet.
There are a number of simulators, one at least from MS to let you view in different IE browser versions. However they are simulators so may not accurately reflect the actual browser. Another way, but it might be over the top for your purposes is to install VM's and put the real browser in each VM to do the testing.
I'm currently using Internet Explorer Collection which gives me over a dozen versions of IE, not that I test that many but it's interesting to look back at occasionally.

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