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by pjmlp 786 days ago
Native extensions unusable on Web browsers don't count.
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littlestymaar 786 days ago
Then nothing involving WebGPU counts since it's not implemented on other browsers than Chromium and not on Linux even in Chromium…

WebGPU is brand new, and the paint is still wet. It doesn't make sense to dismiss things that haven't landed in browsers yet as “unusable on the web”.

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mr_toad 786 days ago
There’s an advanced setting in Safari to enable it, but I can’t say how well it works. In this instance it doesn’t.
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senorrib 786 days ago
It doesn't work at all. Doesn't even exist in Safari anymore because they ditched the old implementation and are rewriting everything.
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FL33TW00D 786 days ago
Multiple engineers are working on adding it back: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed...
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pjmlp 786 days ago
Welcome to Web standards, and Google's ChromeOS transformation of the Web, with help of many Web developers out there.

Doesn't change the fact that is a Web standard, for Web browsers.

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littlestymaar 786 days ago
It is a WIP web standard. And the spec is still evolving most things are stable at that points, but new features are still being added, like this one!).

And that's how the web works, it was the same for WebRTC which spent 2-3 years in such a state, same for MSE, etc.

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