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DOC: ImageGL needs WebGL #38

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pllim opened this issue Feb 9, 2021 · 5 comments
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DOC: ImageGL needs WebGL #38

pllim opened this issue Feb 9, 2021 · 5 comments

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pllim commented Feb 9, 2021

From testing #37 , I found that ImageGL does not work (no error message, just nothing shows) on RHEL 7 (has NVidia but the driver is probably very old). Unfortunately, it is a company machine and I am unable to upgrade anything there.

This WebGL requirement should be properly documented.

@pllim pllim changed the title DOC: ImageGL does not work on some hardware DOC: ImageGL needs WebGL Feb 9, 2021
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pllim commented Feb 10, 2021

For whatever reason, driver upgrade didn't fix the problem on Firefox but it worked on Chrome. 🤷

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Is it enough to specify a minimum browser version for each browser or does the OS matter?

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We could always link to https://get.webgl.org/ which has a test. There are also useful tables like https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-browsercompatibility.html out there - I don't think we want to replicate all my this but could link to these kinds of tables.

@maartenbreddels do we require WebGL or WebGL 2? For the latter having a minimum browser version would be easy to state I think.

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Only WebGL, https://webglreport.com/?v=1 is also nice in case we need particular features

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pllim commented Feb 11, 2021

Even just a note on README and installation (wherever you deem most appropriate) that says "check this first and see if you see a spinning cube" would have been nice. Also need similar note in jdaviz.

Even better if there is some kind of API to check this at start up and fails if WebGL isn't working.

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