Re: [filters] Shading language recommendation

2012/8/22 Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>

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> On Aug 22, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
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> [Dirk Schulze:]
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> I'll add an issue to the specification and mention your concern with the
> link to this thread. Do you think that this concern blocks publishing
> FPWD? Are you ok with publishing The WD when it explicitly mentions your
> concern?
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> I would like to resolve this before FPWD.
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> I'd like to return to the questions put forth in previous posts:
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> 1) Is your objection technical or something else?
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> 2) If your objection is based on the issue of "my platform does not
> support GLSL", what about ANGLE
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ANGLE has been mentioned multiple times in this thread, but I would like to
point out that at least Opera --- for all I know, after all I don't work
there --- uses another equivalent compiler to translate GLSL to HLSL.

Just emphasizing that the choice of GLSL for WebGL does not force using
ANGLE.

Benoit


> and the fact that WebGL (which is the basis for the shading language
> specified) is designed to be implemented on Direct3D, and in fact there are
> currently multiple such implementations available?
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> 3) If the spec were written with no recommended shading language, wouldn't
> that inhibit widespread adoption? How would we deal with that?
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> I think we need to understand these issues before proceeding.
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> ~Chris Marrin
> cmarrin@apple.com
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