Interesting. Do you have any more context around this? It sounds uncharacteristic of Google to do so given their usual stance on browsers being all things to all people.
Yes,
https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-compute/
https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader
And then Google decides not implementating it after all, because of WebGPU.
https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader/issues...