Support for WebGPU via Chromium 113 stable

[landon]

Hello,

I'm sure this is or has been on your radar. I just want to highlight a feature request to bump to Chromium 113 to add support for WebGPU as it is already in the stable releases of Chrome and Edge, leaving Vivaldi behind for the moment in the launch of WebGPU, the new modern graphics API for the web, designed to be the successor of WebGL.

I imagine that a Vivaldi update to support this isn't very far into the future? Or does Vivaldi have some particular considerations to take into account?

While there isn't much beyond developer focused experiments live on the web today, there is one WebGPU based website in particular ( https://compute.toys/ ) that has a growing community around it. It was created with an ethos similar to the classic WebGL based shadertoy.com. Serving as a learning resource and playground for developers or anyone to learn and share knowledge about emerging interactive / high performance graphics and GPU compute for media as well as general purpose STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. More Info: https://twitter.com/cornusammonis/status/1654247424557461505

Looking forward to a forthcoming Vivaldi snapshot with chromium 113 and WebGPU support

Thank you to the developers and the community!

[Hadden89]

@landon Vivaldi follows chromium Extended Stable Release (113 is skipped) so we probably get this with the first 114 snapshot

[landon]

@Hadden89 Ahh I see. That explains it. Thanks very much!

I failed to realize that @npro had also replied to me on a different thread here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/664450

So, it looks like Vivaldi with chromium 114 is expected to arrive later this month! Not long at all.

Thanks everyone!