703483 - WebGL conformance test fails badly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics: CanvasWebGL, defect)

Description

[Hongwei Li]

Firefox 8.0 fails many conformance tests in the latest WebGL official comformance testing suite, with either the latest AMD's driver or Firefox's own EGL implementation. 

I am an engineer working on AMD's OpenGL driver to support WebGL. I look forward to getting touch with some one in Firefox and happy to work with him to get Firefox running better on AMD's driver. Please drop me an email if you are interested. 

FYI, the official webgl testing suite is at
https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/sdk/tests/webgl-conformance-tests.html

Comment 1

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

Thanks for reaching out!

Lots of progress has been made since Firefox 8. For WebGL testing, please always use the Nightly builds (nightly.mozilla.org, currently Firefox 12.0a1).

Known failures on our test systems are documented there:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/WebGL-Conf

You can test using the OpenGL ES driver by replacing the libEGL.dll and libGLESv2.dll in the firefox directory, by AMD's DLLs. You can test using desktop OpenGL drivers by setting BOTH webgl.prefer-native-gl=true and webgl.force-enabled=true in about:config. At any time, the about:support page tells you the GL strings of the renderer used for WebGL (scroll down to WebGL Renderer).

I'm leaving for end-of-year holidays now, but I'm otherwise very interested in discussing this with you.

Comment 2

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

We submitted WebGL 1.0.1 conformance on some AMD devices, so this is basically resolved.