WebGPU: GPUAdapter info attribute

beaufortfrancois commented 3 months ago

Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification

Specification title: WebGPU: GPUAdapter info attribute
Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#dom-gpuadapter-info
Explainer URL (if available): https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4536
Proposal author(s) (@-mention GitHub accounts): @beaufortfrancois
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Mozillians who can provide input (optional): @jimblandy @kdashg
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The GPUAdapter info attribute has not yet been implemented in any browser, but has been approved by the GPU for the Web Community Group, with representatives from Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. See minutes

kdashg commented 2 months ago

We agreed to this in the WG meeting.

martinthomson commented 2 months ago

Is there any prospect of these becoming reliably interoperable? This is probably fine, but these are string fields with no real specification for how they are filled out, other than a superficial normalization pass. If one browser takes steps to elide details (like patch revisions) and another does not, that's not a great outcome. Is the current attitude "sites will cope", much like they "cope" with UA strings?

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WebGPU: GPUAdapter info attribute #1033

Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification

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