Editorial review: Add note about bgra8unorm read-only storage textures bring deprecated #41840
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Use of the
bgra8unormformat for read-only storage textures is deprecated. The specification explicitly disallows this, as this format is intended for write-only access and is not portable. Any browser support for this combination is considered a bug.Chrome previously allowed this, but it is deprecated from version 140 onwards. See https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-webgpu-140#deprecate_bgra8unorm_read-only_storage_texture_usage.
This PR adds a note to make the deprecation clear. Note that I'm not intending to add a browser compat data point for this change, as:
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