Proper way to detect WebGL support?

Question

I am attempting to detect WebGL support across multiple browsers and I\'ve encountered the following scenario. The current version of Firefox appears to report positive supp

Answer 1

// this code will detect WebGL version until WebGL Version maxVersionTest 
var
maxVersionTest = 5,
canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
webglVersion = (canvas.getContext('webgl') || canvas.getContext('experimental-webgl')) ? 1 : null,
canvas = null; // free context

// range: if maxVersionTest = 5 makes [5, 4, 3, 2]
Array.apply(null, Array(maxVersionTest - 1))
.map(function (_, idx) {return idx + 2;})
.reverse()
.some(function(version){
    // cant reuse canvas, potential to exceed contexts or mem limit *
    if (document.createElement('canvas').getContext('webgl'+version))
        return !!(webglVersion = version);
});

console.log(webglVersion);

* re "potential to exceed contexts or mem limit" see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=226868