[webkit-qt] [webkit-dev] How to enable WebGL on WebKit QT port?

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at iki.fi
Wed May 11 09:46:18 PDT 2011


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Joseph Tsai <mgtsai at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this issue is just a design choice. In Chromium's port, if
> certain GL functions are not supported natively, it uses the software
> emulated part to fill out the unsupported part.
>
> I can understand that mixing native GL functions and emulated ones is
> more complex, and developers may decide that it is not worse to spend
> lots of time to implement such a mixing infrastructure in the current
> stage. But it cannot be claimed that supporting partial set of GL
> function is not achievable. We just can say that the mixing mechanism
> would not supported currently since we don't want to incorporate more
> architectural complexity.

That sounds reasonable. I think this can be considered later on.

> Sincerely,
> Joseph

/Jarkko


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