[whatwg] Challenging canvas.supportsContext

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 6/19/13 3:43 PM, Kenneth Russell wrote:
> Accurate feature detection in libraries like Modernizr was mentioned
> as a key use case:
>
>    http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-September/037249.html

Right, this is the use case that's not really making sense to me.  The 
fact that Modernizr was doing this _eagerly_ sounds like a bug in 
Modernizr to me...

> Additionally, though, application developers wanted to be able to ask
> questions like "is software rendering supported for WebGL":

That's definitely something that new API would be needed to address, yes.

-Boris