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What do the WebGL and WebGPU specifications actually promise about colour spaces, sRGB formats and floating-point precision, and so how deterministic can a web 3D viewer be across devices?

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The WebGL spec makes drawingBufferColorSpace and unpackColorSpace default to 'srgb' at context creation. The producer's WebGPU (no colour management; -srgb formats gamma-encode on write) and WGSL (no rounding mode; ULP bounds; flush-to-zero) statements, which imply no bitwise cross-device equality, remain producer-verified only.

The WebGL spec makes drawingBufferColorSpace and unpackColorSpace default to 'srgb' at context creation. The producer's WebGPU (no colour management; -srgb formats gamma-encode on write) and WGSL (no rounding mode; ULP bounds; flush-to-zero) statements, which imply no bitwise cross-device equality, remain producer-verified only. Curator qualifications: Code/spec read 2026-10-22; nothing rendered. WebGPU and WGSL TR text not re-read (large pages). Limitations: Code/spec read 2026-10-22; nothing rendered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/",
      "note": "WebGL 1.0 specification (registry.khronos.org latest)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/1.0/",
      "note": "WebGL 1.0 specification (registry.khronos.org latest)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/",
      "note": "WebGL 1.0 specification (registry.khronos.org latest)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/",
      "note": "WebGL 1.0 specification (registry.khronos.org latest)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] The WebGL spec makes drawingBufferColorSpace and unpackColorSpace default to 'srgb' at context creation. The producer's WebGPU (no colour management; -srgb formats gamma-encode on write) and WGSL (no rounding mode; ULP bounds; flush-to-zero) statements, which imply no bitwise cross-device equality, remain producer-verified only. · locator: WebGL 1.0 specification (registry.khronos.org latest) source

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