- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:54:57 +0200
- To: "Benoit Jacob" <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>, "Dean Jackson" <dino@apple.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:31:59 +0200, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:
> Also, the presence of window.WebGLRenderingContext doesn't necessarily
> indicate
> that WebGL is supported. On iOS for example, that object is available in
> Safari
> but calling getContext('webgl') fails. The supportsContext method would
> allow
> authors to easily detect this case.
Since supportsContext is not supported in Safari on iOS, authors cannot
use it to detect this case at all.
We could say in the spec that if a UA knows it cannot create a specific
context, it must hide the corresponding interface object. This does
basically the same thing as supportsContext, except that it would also
work for pages that already do feature detection based on the interface
object.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 07:53:18 UTC