Scratch-gui: Detect and show friendly error message if WebGL is not supported

Created on 13 Nov 2017  路  7Comments  路  Source: LLK/scratch-gui

Expected Behavior

  • GUI should present a friendly error message if WebGL is not supported

Actual Behavior

  • Fatal exception and stage fails to load

Steps to Reproduce

critical feature

Most helpful comment

@carljbowman I think there's a typo. The word "is" is missing between "Space Jam" and "one".

By the way, Space Jam is my favorite movie too! It's truly incomparable.

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/cc @carljbowman

@carljbowman Can we get a design for this that is similar to the IE warning?
/cc @chrisgarrity @cwillisf

Mock (v2)

Follows the same pattern as https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui/issues/828 and https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui/issues/982

unsupported webgl modal

Version 1 - Space Jam Ipsum

Content

Illustration

unsupported

Copy

  • [x] Header: TBD - @thisandagain
Your Browser Does Not Support WebGL
  • [x] Copy: TBD - @thisandagain
Unfortunately it looks like your browser or computer [does not support WebGL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL#Support). This technology is needed for Scratch 3.0 to run.

Button

Back - Should call a browser Back command

Secondary Copy

Footer: To learn more, go to the Preview FAQ.

  • FAQ URLscratch.mit.edu/preview-faq

@carljbowman I think there's a typo. The word "is" is missing between "Space Jam" and "one".

By the way, Space Jam is my favorite movie too! It's truly incomparable.

@jalman - This _is_ exactly why I should not write copy.

Boring non-space-jam themed copy has been added. 馃弨 馃懢

@chrisgarrity - Just added an illustration to my comment above.

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