LGTM1 On Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 2:49:44 PM UTC+1 Chromestatus wrote:
> *Contact emails* > [email protected] > > *Explainer* > *No information provided* > > *Specification* > https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5389 > > *Summary* > Add a language feature to WGSL, `texture_and_sampler_let` that adds the > ability to store texture and sampler objects into a let declaration in > WGSL. > > *Blink component* > Blink>WebGPU > <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EWebGPU%22> > > *Web Feature ID* > webgpu <https://webstatus.dev/features/webgpu> > > *Motivation* > To allow storing texture and samples in WGSL shaders into lets. This > allows creating local names for what are usually global objects. > > *Initial public proposal* > https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/5339 > > *TAG review* > *No information provided* > > *TAG review status* > Pending > > *Risks* > > > *Interoperability and Compatibility* > This feature has been approved in W3C GPU for the Web WG meetings > including participants from Safari and Firefox. Meeting minutes: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kTmVO9okQZOotWtCNDzRaF-rPXgyIVJ-u5PEe7rnjQc/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.u8bh2sfreh45 > > > *Gecko*: No signal Mozilla members have approved > https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5389 and requested during weekly > standardization meetings that we postpone filing standard positions until > we reach Candidate Recommendation (CR) status in Q4. > > *WebKit*: Closed Without a Position ( > https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/294#issuecomment-1877411933 > ) > > *Web developers*: No signals > > *Other signals*: > > *WebView application risks* > > Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that > it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? > *No information provided* > > > *Debuggability* > *No information provided* > > *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?* > No > All platforms will eventually have support. Will immediately be available > on Android, Android WebView, ChromeOS, Mac, and Windows, where hardware > support is available. Linux is planned to have WebGPU support in the > future, so this feature will become available when WebGPU does. > > *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?* > Yes > WebGPU/WGSL have a conformance test suite (https://github.com/gpuweb/cts) > that is regularly pulled into Chromium and part of the testing of Dawn/Tint > in Chromium. While the CTS can be embedded in WPT, the WebGPU team opted to > keep it separate in Chromium testing to use a customized harness for > robustness and performance. CTS: https://github.com/gpuweb/cts/pull/4490 > > *Flag name on about://flags* > *No information provided* > > *Finch feature name* > UnsafeWGSLFeatures > > *Rollout plan* > Will ship enabled for all users > > *Requires code in //chrome?* > False > > *Tracking bug* > https://crbug.com/459500757 > > *Estimated milestones* > Shipping on desktop 146 > Shipping on Android 146 > Shipping on WebView 146 > > *Anticipated spec changes* > > Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or > interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues > in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may > introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of > the API in a non-backward-compatible way). > *No information provided* > > *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* > https://chromestatus.com/feature/5102334940151808?gate=6582632798355456 > > This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status > <https://chromestatus.com>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/b9897245-5313-4052-8e67-f6c4b09a8714n%40chromium.org.
