Use texture shorthands instead of view when possible

[beaufortfrancois]

Spec PR: gpuweb/gpuweb#5228

Note that support is available only in Chrome Canary for now.

[greggman]

lgtm - I assume you'll wait to merge until the other browsers support this?

[Kangz]

Firefox nightly seems to support this as there is no warning in webgpureport.org (which checks for it as far as I can tell from the source code). Does Safari also support it? If it does then we should merge this PR.

[greggman]

I am wondering if we should add a check to the main page that tests it and puts up a message "...upgrade your browser...". (in another PR)

[greggman]

FYI, Safari does not support using a canvas texture as a color target if you don't call createView() as of Safari 26.2 so we can't merge this yet

[Kangz]

@mwyrzykowski does Safari support using textures instead of views, including for the canvas texture now?

[mwyrzykowski]

@mwyrzykowski does Safari support using textures instead of views, including for the canvas texture now?

It does except resolve textures as @greggman noticed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313159

The resolve path is corrected too but only in Safari Technology Preview 243 and later

[Kangz]

Thanks for the confirmation! Hopefully it makes it in the next stable Safari release!