Use unity 5 to build responsive websites

Questions & Answers
1

Hi,
Since the new Unity 5 is capable of building to WebGL, is it possible to build entire websites with it? Would it be possible to make them responsive?
Would them work on mobile platforms?

Thank you!

2

WebGL support on mobile browsers is limited. But if you can make a game and post it online using WebGL, your game could be structured as a website instead. Unity is more optimized for games than websites but I believe there’s a strong future in using Unity to build websites. Especially considering the demise of Flash has left a vacuum. I believe it gives us the potential to abandon HTML altogether and use only a fully interactive experience that works more like a program or an app rather than an HTML driven 2d website.

3

WebGL is not better way to present content in the web (it can be disabled by default on some devices), for building mobile friendly pages you can use bootsrap - a very simple library.
for me, full WebGL site is not an option because googlebot can’t parse it

4

Thank you for the info money4honey. I know bootstrap and I was just curious if Unity can be a medium creating websites responsively since it has capability creating browser games. VR and AR is becoming popular in the gaming realm and I feel like it will have a huge impact in the web too. Mozilla is creating a framework for that called A-frame, but that requires you to code all the angles of a polygon to show through the web. I was wondering if I can just model it in a modeling program like Maya or C4D and put it in Unity and publish through the web with HTML5 or webgl that process would be more time saving in my part. I do not really care about mobile friendly web pages for now since for one its going to be my portfolio website not actually in creating for clients and such.

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For future visitors: This is a terrible idea if you don’t think of rebuilding everything the web stands for (like links, interaction with focus states, make it accessible, work for searchbots etc). So you will pretty much need to rebuild a browser inside your website. This is what we did back in the days with Flash. Don’t repeat our stupid misstakes.

With that said. Why not, If you do it correctly :slight_smile:

An a-frame has come a long way since 2016. So it’s definitely worth a try.