This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The WebGLRenderingContext.getAttribLocation() method of the WebGL API returns the location of an attribute variable in a given WebGLProgram.
getAttribLocation(program, name)
programA WebGLProgram containing the attribute variable.
nameA string specifying the name of the attribute variable whose location to get.
A GLint number indicating the location of the variable name if found. Returns -1 otherwise.
gl.getAttribLocation(program, "vColor");
| Specification |
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| WebGL Specification> # 5.14.10> |
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getAttribLocation |
9 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 5.1 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1.5 | 4.4.3 | 8 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/getAttribLocation