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GPUDeviceLostInfo: reason property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The reason read-only property of the GPUDeviceLostInfo interface defines the reason the device was lost in a machine-readable way.

Value

An enumerated value. At the moment the only value defined in the spec is "destroyed", which indicates that the device was destroyed by a call to GPUDevice.destroy().

If the device was lost because of an unknown reason not covered in the available enumerated values, reason returns undefined.

Examples

See the main GPUDevice.lost page for an example.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
reason
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
141Currently supported on Windows only, in all contexts except for service workers.
99Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
26 121 No 81 26 25.0 121 26

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUDeviceLostInfo/reason