GPUDeviceLostInfo: reason property

Limited availability

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

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

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

Specification
WebGPU
# dom-gpudevicelostinfo-reason

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
reason
Experimental

See also