Comment by esperent

2 days ago

I thought this was some crazy CSS syntax I've never seen before:

    background: @shaders(
      fragment { }
      vertex { }
      texture { }
    );

Searching around just leads back to this blog though [0]. It would be amazing if this was real syntax, but I guess security reasons would probably make it a no-go for general use.

Indeed, there was an old CSS Shaders feature (in Chrome, behind a flag) behind from way back around 2013 [1]. Unclear if there's been any development since.

[0] https://yuanchuan.dev/add-shaders

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/introduction-to-custom-fil...

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Etheryte  1 day ago

Here's hoping this will never come to browsers because this would become an endless pit of fingerprinting loopholes, similar to canvas and other related APIs.

  • circuit10  1 day ago

    I think browsers can already block sites from reading image data from images embedded from other domains so maybe you could use the same logic here

    Also WebGL/WebGPU do exist already although I guess that’s easier to disable