615310 - Make webgl.verbose discoverable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics: CanvasWebGL, defect)

Description

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Attachment: patch

I know we've discussed this before, and you didn't want to make the code any more complicated than it was; but now I really think that we should do it.

This generates a JS warning once, when webgl.verbose=false and a WebGL warning happens, telling the user about that preference.

JS developers just expect JS warnings to show up in the error console, and they may well not know about the webgl preferences at all (since it's enabled by default).

I asked a few people and the ones who replied were in favor of such a change; I didn't get any reply in favor against such a change.

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

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patch

Why would anyone argue against it?  There's no downside for them :-)  But, sure.

Comment 2

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51130bef63c6