WebGL

I'm only partly embarrassed to admit that I do my work on a 32 bit, Windows 7 PC that I bought refurbished from Tiger Direct. Whew!... now, with that out of the way, I am using the Bing Maps API instead of the Google API because Klaus alertly discovered years ago that Google was going to "sunset" flash functionality. With all of the talk about the "death knell" of flash though, I decided to try the Google API by creating this test project: http://www.photographyoptions.net/images/mtnharbor/tour.html to try both Google Maps and background sound. In doing this, I have learned that my Video Card which uses the Intel Q35 Express Chipset, is "blacklisted" from being "WebGL capable." Nonetheless, I uploaded the test tour shown in the link....and Google Maps works perfectly in IE 10.0.9, but not in Firefox 39.0 and not in Chrome 44.0....on the "blacklisted video card. I have another refurbished Windows 7, 32 bit machine that is slightly newer and I get the same deal. Google maps works in IE, but with Firefox and Chrome I get "Bing Maps API missing, failed to load" Why is this? Thanks in Advance, Reggie. P.S. - Many thanks to Umalo for helping with Tab Key navigation yesterday....I am no longer pointing the gun at my head....but it is still pointed at my foot!

OK, I see that my video card driver is blacklisted in Firefox and Chrome and so WebGL is not supported. Can I assume that with the html.tour file set to "html5 prefer," that most devices will launch the map in html5 using the Google Maps API that is in the tour.xml file?

One other thing that I noticed.....In trying to view virtual tours on the website of http://www.youvisit.com; in Chrome and Firefox, the panos load and work pretty well in the respective flash environments. In IE 10, however......where WebGL is active and allows me to view html5 content, I get an Adobe Flash error saying that I must have Adobe Flash 10.1 or newer to view flash content. Why would this be?

Thanks in advance, Reggie

I brought up http://www.youvisit.com because here in the states they are the "900 pound gorilla" in the college campus virtual tour market here and therefore my principal competitor. The "create your own" tour functionality / VR functionality was recently introduced and presents a huge problem for small players like me. Institutions and government entities are hiring photographers and "digital media" managers....and they now clamor for content management capabilities in all things related to the web. By introducing this backEnd content management option and "jumping the shark" on VR, http://www.youvisit.com has created some new marketing issues for me that need to be creatively addressed.

Thanks for taking the time to respond Klaus!

Reggie