Except that it turns out that when citing “some Mac OS hardware” Ken meant: “The affected machines are those with NVIDIA and Intel GPUs.” Um, that’s pretty much any Macbook. Including mine. Suddenly one day some awesome WebGL demos I wrote got visibly less awesome after Chrome auto-updated. Then I checked the same demos in Firefox and it turns out they followed suit and recently pushed a similar fix. The net result is that several of my previously beautiful projects now look shite. I am seriously bummed.
I could investigate one of several techniques for doing my own antialiased rendering via writing custom GLSL shaders. But that’s some R&D and work load I hadn’t been budgeting for. What would be much better is if Apple fixes this situation ASAP. Dean Jackson from Apple is on the case (thanks for the email replies Dino!) and I hope they fix it soon! If you’re having issues like I am, maybe add your voice to the chorus. The email archive for this thread contains info on the already-filed bug reports and an address for filing new bugs with Apple.
Just a heads-up for everyone who may have wondered why their WebGL got ugly overnight… meantime I am seriously considering (shudder) buying a new Windows laptop to show off my stuff. Somebody stop me.