On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I think Khronos made a bad experience with backwards compatible APIs > during OpenGL's history. They maintained a compatible API for OpenGL for > ~15 years until it was huge and crufty. Mode switches are their solution > to the problem.
Yes, but Khronos can say that at some point v1 is no longer supported. Or particular GPU vendors can say that. But this API is for the web, where we can't and where we've learned repeatedly that mode switches are terrible in the long run. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
