Re: [Public WebGL] Signed Int to Float Convertion Problem

[Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com>]

This is in the fixed function part of the hardware. There's no possibility for emulating the behavior. Since WebGL's hosted on top of a large range of OpenGL versions, it's impossible to guarantee OpenGL ES 2.0's behavior in WebGL 1.0 contexts.

To be honest since this hasn't come up until now I'm inclined to simply mention this in the differences section of the spec and not change the spec. Adding a query to determine the underlying behavior would only slow down startup time for most WebGL apps and add yet more code to the browser for a corner case.

-Ken

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Mark Callow <khronos@callow.im> wrote:

On Aug 15, 2017, at 12:34, Zhenyao Mo <zmo@chromium.org> wrote:

But WebGL1 could be implemented on top of ES2 or ES3, so the question
is do we want to emulate ES2's behavior for WebGL1 implemented on top
of ES3 or desktop GL.

Yes and IIRC it is acceptable for ES implementations to return an ES3 context even when an ES2 context is requested.

I don’t know how practical emulation is.

Regards

    -Mark