Centralize renderer limitations for non-conformant renderers

Some renderer configurations (e.g. D3D11 Feature Level 9_3) have
some limitations and aren't quite conformant. This change
generates errors when applications hit these limitations, and
informs developers that they must work around them.

BUG=angleproject:1055

Change-Id: I6a4a9e5cc71288ca366a54c769ca0eb82e79a7f7
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/282814
Reviewed-by: Geoff Lang <geofflang@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jamie Madill <jmadill@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Jamie Madill <jmadill@chromium.org>
19 files changed
tree: 9e782fa8b2bc3ff1dba8d96a1a10602a43b83ce5
  1. build/
  2. doc/
  3. extensions/
  4. include/
  5. samples/
  6. src/
  7. util/
  8. .gitattributes
  9. .gitignore
  10. angle.isolate
  11. angle_on_all_platforms.isolate
  12. AUTHORS
  13. BUILD.gn
  14. codereview.settings
  15. CONTRIBUTORS
  16. DEPS
  17. LICENSE
  18. README.chromium
  19. README.md
README.md

#ANGLE The goal of ANGLE is to allow Windows users to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES content by translating OpenGL ES API calls to DirectX 9 or DirectX 11 API calls.

ANGLE is a conformant implementation of the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification that is hardware‐accelerated via Direct3D. ANGLE v1.0.772 was certified compliant by passing the ES 2.0.3 conformance tests in October 2011. ANGLE also provides an implementation of the EGL 1.4 specification. Work on ANGLE's OpenGL ES 3.0 implementation is currently in progress, but should not be considered stable.

ANGLE is used as the default WebGL backend for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on Windows platforms. Chrome uses ANGLE for all graphics rendering on Windows, including the accelerated Canvas2D implementation and the Native Client sandbox environment.

Portions of the ANGLE shader compiler are used as a shader validator and translator by WebGL implementations across multiple platforms. It is used on Mac OS X, Linux, and in mobile variants of the browsers. Having one shader validator helps to ensure that a consistent set of GLSL ES shaders are accepted across browsers and platforms. The shader translator can be used to translate shaders to other shading languages, and to optionally apply shader modifications to work around bugs or quirks in the native graphics drivers. The translator targets Desktop GLSL, Direct3D HLSL, and even ESSL for native GLES2 platforms.

##Building View the Dev setup instructions.

##Contributing