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Comment by apitman

10 hours ago

> creating multiple charts on the same page with GL (e.g. dashboard) has historically been limited by the fact that Chrome is capped at 16 active GL contexts that can be acquired simultaneously. Plotly finally worked around this by using https://github.com/greggman/virtual-webgl

Sometimes I like to ponder on the immense amount of engineering effort expended on working around browser limitations.

Think of it as finally targeting a smartphone. People like beautiful pictures. And your phone is already in your hand.