[cmiles74]

Is it your position that the only drivers worth using are those produced by the operating system's vendor? While I suppose this would make sense to Apple, it sounds entirely crazy to me. IMHO, it makes much more sense for the hardware vendor to write the drivers.

[MrScruff]

The web is supposed to be a universal platform. It doesn't make much sense to limit a feature to the subsection of web users who install graphics drivers.

[yellowapple]

In the case of Windows, the operating system installs proper drivers automatically. I don't recall if these are the exact same ones from, say, the NVIDIA or AMD or Intel website, but I'd be very surprised if these drivers didn't nonetheless ship with Vulkan support.

On the flip-side of that, the web is supposed to be a universal platform. It doesn't make much sense to limit a feature to the subsection of web users who have hardware that supports 3D acceleration. :)

[cmiles74]

I'm not saying that operating system provided drivers should be ignored, but that it makes no sense to ignore vendor provided drivers either. In this case we have all the major GPU vendors on board with the standard, yet Apple claims that since the OS vendor (i.e. Apple themselves) doesn't produce the driver, it shouldn't be depended upon.